INFANTILE IDIOMS.
I ' American scientists harp made the discovery that babv-falk is not gibberish, but is really an intelligeut effort to express deliuite ideas. - Baby, will you please accept a most sincere apology? „ .. . Till now we did not realise that you va linguistic powers. We hadn't learned the meaning or your cryptic phraseology. Nor lolloweil your orations, though you've kept them up for hours. Vow, of your abilities at last we're growing sensible. For up-to-date research has made it obvious and clear That each mysterious phrase—although to . us incomprehensible— Is simply the expression of a definite idea. Frequently we've noticed you're Inclined to he colloquial. At other times your style has been hnth dlgDiOed and grand. -'*'- ootn ADd TmTjoE y ° U -"--"- made R, '^ t l u;"K-rs [ _nr e,yfan ~--' I -*-e'iid —" Sunday Pictorial,"
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 17
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132INFANTILE IDIOMS. Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 89, 14 April 1923, Page 17
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