Speaking of their language....
Nov. 4th, 2007 10:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Angelique has, for a while now, been saying "yellow" as "lello". She's also been saying "oil" as "oylul", but I didn't connect the two until yesterday, when I realized that when we say "oil" it comes out "oi-yul" with a clear y in it. So... y before l makes l?
The trouble is, I don't know any more words that have a y before an l, at least not off the top of my head, so I can't test this hypothesis very well. But I think it makes sense, anyway.
What's really funny is that she didn't used to do this. She used to say them more or less correctly, and then started doing that all of a sudden. But maybe I'm wrong here, and misremembering.
Edit: Of course, there's yell. I have to try that. Maybe I'll ask her to ask her sister if she can say that... *is devious*
Edit again: Of course, I *know* that yell and yellow are very similar. I still need other words. Like yodel if the d weren't there.
The trouble is, I don't know any more words that have a y before an l, at least not off the top of my head, so I can't test this hypothesis very well. But I think it makes sense, anyway.
What's really funny is that she didn't used to do this. She used to say them more or less correctly, and then started doing that all of a sudden. But maybe I'm wrong here, and misremembering.
Edit: Of course, there's yell. I have to try that. Maybe I'll ask her to ask her sister if she can say that... *is devious*
Edit again: Of course, I *know* that yell and yellow are very similar. I still need other words. Like yodel if the d weren't there.
