A Bunch of Words ...

Picture ‘And they are all just a bunch of words. Cool huh?’ – so ended a conversation with a friend of mine – namely the lovely guy and author of amazing novel  Erasure ; A.T.H. Webber – which got me thinking about the power of words.

Cool indeed, because baby is joining in now. She has words!

After months and months of sometimes overwhelming frustration, with baby pointing at things and going ‘Uh, uh,’ me passing her everything in sight; usually met with a shake of her head and then a more persistent ‘Uh, UH,’ she can now pretty much ask for whatever she wants.

She says ‘dum dum’ when she wants her dummy, shouts ‘gate gate’ when I leave the gate open, ‘ball’ when she wants to play ball, you get the idea – no end of amazing words. Words that we take for granted, but without which the world is a confusing, frustrating place. Of course, people also communicate with sign language, which is perhaps even more amazing.

I likened the frustration of not being able to ‘talk’ to baby as how cavemen must have felt, left only with their guttural grunts. But after some good old Google searches, I discovered that although ‘the earliest humans did not use words to communicate, they used sign languages [although different from the sign language used today.] Similarly, body language was also used to communicate and pass on messages in the early humans.’ (from: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/who-invented-sign-language.html)

Then I realized that of course baby was communicating from the word go – with the touch of her tiny fingers, wrapped around my own, or a smile that evokes more emotion than a thousand words ever could. She even kisses us now! But I must admit I do love the words, and look forward to our first
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Published on July 13, 2013 05:34
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