If Children Grew up Isolated from Adults, Would they Create Their Own Language?

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[@taffyhomwe463]

My son is 3 years old and he speaks 3 languages fluently. He speaks English and the local languages of the country we live in and then our native language despite having never been to our home country . What's interesting is that he knows when to speak each language and never mixes languages or words

[@barrydysert2974]

A personal comment beginning around 11:00. Allegedly!:-) 😎💜

[@barrydysert2974]

ASTOUNDING!:-) 💜

[@TheOtherBill]

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[@brettsuydam]

I'm currently hunting for a quality, analog, single-hand 24 hr watch. They are difficult to find. But I want something simple that gives me the "about that time" time.

[@robertespley248]

I would genuinely watch a "Big Brother" style show where there are 12 people from different nationalities who only speak their own native language and see how they learn to communicate with each other over a period of time to accomplish challenging tasks etc etc

[@calsta619]

And ensure the 12 languages are from different language families, that way there no cheating of understanding (eg Italian and Spanish)

[@apricotcotlet197]

@@calsta619 Can Finnish and Japanese be included?

[@katherinetutschek4757]

Reality TV for language nerds 🤓 Count me in

[@natashamorais6264]

I would watch this too

[@Matthew-ut6ed]

Great idea. Would be a fascinating experiment!

[@JustinY.]

It's pretty insane to think how some communities could exist, isolated from the world, and have a language that no one can understand.

[@iambricio809]

Mama

[@evildwagon7118]

Aaaayyyy, Justin Y.

[@zinniaward8549]

They do

[@richielavey1565]

I think you’d be interested in the people of north sentinal island

[@Victoria-oy2ih]

My sister was literally trained in linguistics in the hopes of going into a tribe with no outside contact with the purpose of learning their language and developing a written language.

[@funnyusername8635]

When I was a kid, a Russian speaking family with a little boy called Sasha moved to our neighborhood. Sasha didn't speak any English. We spoke zero Russian. In fact, outside of bits on TV and in movies, I don't think I had ever really heard Russian before then. We had no problem getting along. None. Almost instantly, we had started to work out signs for games, directions, needs and emotions.

[@johnhall7215]

I lived in China for. A few months when I was in 6th grade , and I had a friend who spoke Chinese.i only spoke English. But we would play a dodge ball game and wrestle all the time. We talked by using broken words we both knew and pointing and nudging ,

[@Niseau]

I'm deaf, 12 years old and speaks English and uses sign language fluent

[@zeropsycho5768]

@@Niseau hell yeah deaf bsl gang 😎😎😎

[@StarryxNight5]

@@Niseau huh. Unrelated but, I wonder what your thinking feels like. Maybe it would be like my very hurried thinking but just slower and normal. Feels weird thinking about it.

[@k7ky0]

@@Niseau just wondering. Do you know how these words sounds like?

[@Kangakool]

You just summarized like half a semester of a Language Development class I took into fifteen minutes. Well done!

[@cardboardartisan8067]

Thats what a summary is.

[@Xfactor7430]

Smartass

[@Xfactor7430]

😉

[@VeggieRice]

@@cardboardartisan8067 yeah... why are you talking?

[@carafurry7862]

@@Xfactor7430 you oofed her

[@Fuzzy_Spork]

My youngest sister had a language impediment when she first started talking and only me and our other sister could understand her, so we often had to translate even to our parents. Middle sister and myself communicated with her using her own version of words so by the time she was 4 we had our own language. Eventually she grew out of it but we used our private language between the 3 of us for years. Even as adults (I'm 50 now!) we STILL use some words from our made up language when we are together.

[@davidcheong1]

I've seen a child who spoke perfect gibberish in a "disabled centre". It was 100% baby babble to me. Another child in the centre though, could understand every word she said, and tell me what she wanted. I've no idea if it's another language, or just badly spoken.

[@xilau1578]

@crazy silly different language (especially big gaps among each other)would help u discover new idea. abc+аъш+αβε (no), abc+ぬせえ+علّم ما تعلمته(yes).

[@WisdomThumbs]

My little brother had a language impediment as well. Sister and I were 7-8 years old than him, but we still translated for him. We never made up words or used babytalk, though. I miss him.

[@WisdomThumbs]

@crazy silly Suicide. It's important to understand that suicidal people often wait until they've had a happy day before killing themselves, because suicide requires intense emotional conviction, which they lack while still depressed. So if you know anyone who's suicidal, know that they need their friends and loved ones even on their best days (not just their bad days). This world sucks and it's hard, but that seems to be the point. The happiest people are those who dig courage and empathy out of pain. And we as humans need each other. Everything we've discovered and learned is built on the foundations laid by our forebears. Jimmy was a truly spectacular human being, wise and strong beyond his years, but we didn't fight hard enough to separate him from my narcissistic, abusive father. So I'll make sure that Earth is made a better place, and I'll make sure that other people learn the threat of emotional abuse, so the next Jimmy lives to move mountains.

[@scooterdogg7580]

I've seen that before siblings as translators it's fascinating

[@FatRonaldo1]

School kids talking in slang is almost like learning a new language, I could have a conversation with some of my friends that no one outside my area of age range would comprehend at all

[@fluffyunicorn57]

Yeah. I'm 15 and I'm not the hippest person out there, so I heard kids use words I don't understand all the time. And with the internet, it's not like when we were little and had slang used only within our school, many of the terms seem to be national.

[@kylemckinnon7788]

69th like.

[@phosphenevision]

That happens because we isolate children and teens for hours together every day

[@lancebrown998]

@SCP 096 based

[@FatRonaldo1]

@@fluffyunicorn57 no offence but using the word ‘hippest’ is your first stumbling block

[@metaphangmc]

Language is such a mind blowing concept. My 2 year old noticed my wife and I call eachorher Babe to get eachothers attention. She knows I'm daddy and my wife is mommy but when she wants to get our attention, usually to hand us something or ask for something, she says Babe! At first I hated it cause I dont want my child calling me babe but I started to marvel at the intellect behind it now. Kids are amazing

[@Mac_an_Mheiriceanaigh]

LOLL

[@marcomongke3116]

Dont worry too much about it, babe! 😄

[@Matthew-ut6ed]

Perfectly logical! That's how kids pick up language.

[@kehindeakiode2865]

My daughter calls me "honey" sometimes for the same reason 😁

[@panda4247]

The question is then, whether the child knows that the word "babe " or "honey" refers to you, or do they think it's means something like "here", "hey", "attention", etc. Simple experiment - if they want to get somebody else's attention, like grandma's , or if I came for a visit; would the child still use "babe"?

[@emmadenton1826]

I also find it fascinating how quickly fandoms, or other niche internet groups, develop their own language. If you accidentally stumble into a corner of the internet you are unfamiliar with, you usually struggle to understand what they are saying. Language is so damn cool

[@bobateacuber7646]

Based

[@Anglepet456]

This is called "jargon" in sense. Occupations or interests often develop their own jargon in order to make complicated things simple to communicate quickly. Text speech is another form of this.

[@EloMac]

Like the avatar fandom. (The blue people) Stumble into there and all if a sudden you have people speaking fluent na’vi.

[@irimac1806]

I can advise urban dictionary :D It helped me a great deal with a lot of acronyms and words or phrases I didnt understand :)

[@christophersalinas2722]

In the Star Wars prequel fandom it’s just references and quotes

[@AlexRaePersonalFinance]

There are SO many interesting psychology experiments that we cannot do for obvious ethical reasons. It's definitely fun to think about them though!

[@damienk7311]

Not to mention the many experiments that we shouldn't do for obvious ethical reason, but do anyway; looking at you famed Eugenicist Margaret Sanger . All it takes to get people on board with these horrible horrible ideas, is to dehumanize the victims...

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

I sometimes used to babysit for a friends kid who was about 6, and I would put on tv shows and films in Japanese to see if he picked anything up. I don't think it worked, but it was hard to tell because nobody understood anything he said.

[@neiana]

I feel like the "ethical reasons" could be taken care of, but at great sums of money & agreements across basically all nations of the world. It'd take 50 years, too, then you'd need a team of researchers to figure out the results... which, in my opinion, is the greatest ethical question. Because what if they can't figure it out?

[@kennethfharkin]

@@neiana I fail to see how "ethical reasons" could be alleviated by great sums of money. They would still be ethical reasons with bribery thrown in. The fact of the matter is raising a child absent all language would not simply result in a child without language but it was devastate the mental development of the child. So much of the development around human brains is based on social dynamics and so much of that is based on language that to not expose and develop language at an early stage will result in the permanent retardation of those areas of the brain. At some point the ability of the child to develop effective language is past and with it the mental capacity to do that along with many other things.

[@neiana]

@@kennethfharkin that is where you think far too small. Take all of your concerns and answer them. Find a way to make it ethical. Counter the problems with solutions. You said bribery? Lol How about ensure that those involved are well taken care of and provided for. They will find a way to communicate, and so long as the modern world is afforded them, cars, houses, entertainment, etc., there are no ethical problems. That is why I said huge sums of money, agreement from the entire world, and researchers capable of going in at the end to find a way to learn the eventual language.

[@beranovatyna]

My cousins moved to switzerland when they were little, one was 5 yo and one was 2yo. Their parents put them to kindergarten and they did not understand french at the time, so what happened is my younger cousin found some friends, that were also foreigners and they almost instantly developed their own language which was a mix of those languages they could speak and my older cousin didnt say a word for about 3 months and then she started speaking fluent french. Always found this story fascinating :)

[@Dommommy]

That's incredibly interesting how each of the children developed their own coping and learning mechanisms. Both are equally admirable

[@cameronchrist2406]

@uncletigger In that case the childs only peers would be their parents. I think Language and Programming Channel is saying that a persons vocabulary and dialect are largely influenced by people we interact with on a regular basis. So for many children a large portion of their interactions are going to be their classmates and friends.

[@skyden24195]

How about a strange "deuteriation" of language? My grandparents could speak fluent Spanish and English, this was passed on to my uncle, my aunt and my dad. However, throughout their school years, social norms of the time discouraged speaking Spanish in school, and often in public in general. When my dad joined the U.S. Air Force, he was needing to speak Spanish even less, eventually to the point that although he understands Spanish when it is spoken, my dad has difficulty speaking it himself despite growing up knowing how to speak the language. As for myself, I have a very pedestrian understanding of spoken Spanish, but I can read and write it better than I can comprehend it audibly. This is because of my minimal but consistent exposure to Spanish from regular visits to my grandparents throughout childhood, and through high school Spanish classes.

[@beranovatyna]

@@cameronchrist2406 exactly, for example my uncle who moved to another country as an adult speaks well, but with accent, but his children who were taught by both their parents and their surroundings speak fluent.. and it is wery often that children of immigrants speak the new languague better then their parents, because obviously, they learned from their friends.

[@skyden24195]

@uncletigger my experience does parallel yours further, because French and Italian are, like Spanish, Latin based, I find I can understand those languages at a higher level than others (other than English, of course.) Another comparison; my uncle was attending a Catholic school for some years, had his (or any other student doing as well) hands smacked by the teacher/nuns with a ruler any time he spoke Spanish in the classroom.

[@dnomyarnostaw]

I have a vivid memory from about the age if two, where I asked my Mother a very important question several times, and I suddenly realised she couldn't understand a word I was saying. I suppose for months the friendly adult responses to my gibberish fooled me into thinking they understood what I was saying. I also suspect that understanding adult speech happens well before the ability to speak properly. It would be interesting to do a proper study of the process.

[@StudyingIsFun]

Oops

[@ingerjuni]

When I was little I could not understand adult speech, I could only understand other children and when adults spoke baby talk, so if my parents were speaking to each other I could not understand it, it felt really wierd not understanding my native language, but I think it is because my bad listening comprehension

[@whatcanidooo]

This reminds me this thing - when I was a kid I had a toy shopping cart, and one of my earliest memories was of when I first got it: I remembered sitting my doll in the front of the cart and pushing her up and down the hallway singing "baby I love you." Years later my mom was showing me old videos she had from when we were little, and there was one of me on the day I got the toy shopping cart, pushing my doll down the hallway and singing. I was like oh my god I remember this, but the thing is that in the video I was just singing gibberish. Like in my head I remembered strolling around the house singing my doll to sleep, but in reality I was using the cart to balance, because I was still toddling, and just going "abbaaa bbdad da"

[@dnomyarnostaw]

@@whatcanidooo Great to hear that it happens to others to. Thanks for sharing.

[@zezenia_art]

It's always fascinating the connection between the brucas and wernicks areas 🙏💕 (2 areas in the brain responsible of the words forming and understanding of the spoken words... A very interesting subject to read about if you are interested) You be really remember somethings, saying a bunch of things yet no one understands you and you wonder why? Years later you find a video or an evidence of the recalled incidence and the only thing that you can hear is "child gibberish".

[@hansate]

For a sec I though he was going to say "Vsauce, Micheal here."

[@nobreakingthepickle3452]

For real, at a glance he looks like Michael in the thumbnail

[@warrenpeace8729]

Or Binging With Babish lol

[@prajjwoltimilsina3093]

Same

[@Amy-si8gq]

Vsauce, Gary here

[@trytosurvive7811]

I'm really sad because he isn't Michael

[@thisisavivistanaccount7866]

I find language acquisition to be so fascinating. This was such a good video.

[@bonniedean9495]

ok

[@ryshow9118]

People really can be incredible

[@johns9652]

I agree, but because I learned to read at a very early age, and once I learned became mostly self taught, I sometimes become the butt of jokes by mispronouncing words I learned in print, but never heard spoken. This video itself, I fear may contain an example: Simon spoke of pidgin several times, which I understand to mean a conglomeration of, or bastardization of, one or more languages. Similar to the word patois. However, he said to my ears "pigeon". In my self-taught youth, that was pid-gin, with the g pronounced like the g in gain, not gin. Today is the first time in my 49 years I actually heard someone say it aloud. I learned such words as a child by reading things like Call of the Wild which mentioned French-Canadians and Native Inuit peoples and Americans and how they communicated, and other stories about sailors and pirates and explorers and how they would learn to communicate with and barter with each other, despite speaking different languages. Since some of the stories I was reading were written in a bit of an archaic form, I was often not caught out in school for many years (Swiss Family Robinson, Robinson Crusoe, Treasure Island, etc.) The most embarrassing and memorable mistake of this nature was when in high school English Literature class, the teacher asked me to read aloud from some story or other, and I pronounced the word melancholy in my own way, which I had established mentally sometime around the age of 6-7; Muh-LONG-cah-lee. She looked at me very puzzled, knowing I was usually the most adept reader in the class. Her: The word is melancholy...MEL-in-cah-lee...melon, collie My Brain: WTF?! It's muh-LONG-call-lee. Her informing me of the proper pronunciation and verbal explanation, left me with a permanent mental image of a silly cartoon drawing of a cross between a watermelon and Lassie. Regretfully, I related this tale to some friends years later in adulthood, and they never let me live it down. Out of spite, to this day, in their presence at least, I continue to use my personal pronunciation.

[@ikinoktace1280]

Why is everyone so salty about someone being amused?

[@pottyputter05]

Its mind bottling... but no really all jokes aside it amazes me when I remove myself from language as a given that we somehow came up with these sounds meaning so many things and with inflection and conotation every word is a language unto itself in a way.... HOW THE FACK

[@TriXJester]

I mean we basically reinvented hieroglyphs with the language of emojis, humans always find a way to communicate

[@junkmalme]

As an older millennial, I experienced firsthand the need to convey tone through text when no such system existed, beyond exposition. There was a huge variety of experimental practices that largely depended on specific, small online communities. But it is clear that everyone wanted to be able to convey their thoughts and intent more clearly.

[@birdiemcchicken1471]

Emotes are actually kind of fascinating when you think of them as a language that revolves around conveying emotions rather than meaning. e.g. XD and :P and ^^; and :D all mean different emotions, but aren't nouns or verbs, etc.

[@skyden24195]

;-)

[@redactedz6146]

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[@doncarlin9081]

Never thought of it that way, but it's kind if true.

[@syncsummit]

I’ve always thought Dutch was created by two very young orphaned children, one German and one English who melded their languages to communicate.

[@mariodatguy4988]

Yeah English has had a lot of latin influence otherwise it would likely be pretty close ti dutch and frisian

[@DamianYerrick]

Not too far off from what actually happened: Children speaking Anglo-Saxon (basically an older form of Frisian) and Norman French created Middle English.

[@wolfzmusic9706]

@@mariodatguy4988 frisian is the closest language to english

[@davidwright7193]

@Angelo River no. Modern Dutch and Modern English evolved at the same time neither predates the other. Remember that 300 years ago Afrikaans was 17th century Dutch. Bring a Dutch speaker from 1700 to 2020 and they wouldn’t be able to communicate with a modern Dutch speaker any more easily than with an Afrikaans speaker. Old Dutch is perhaps closer to modern Dutch than old English is to modern English (that may also be true for old English and modern Dutch). It is also true that 2000 years ago proto-old English will have been spoken in parts of the Low Countries and may even be the same language as proto-old-Dutch. However it is in no way true to say Dutch is “older” than English to do so is to fundamentally misunderstand the nature of evolutionary processes.

[@davidwright7193]

@Angelo River no. That is something that happened to English since it’s common ancestor with Dutch it doesn’t make English any younger compared to Dutch it just makes it a bit less Germanic than Dutch. Besides which the Norman invasion doesn’t create Middle English it adds some vocabulary to it. Middle English is old English in the process of becoming modern English. The changes that distinguish English from other Germanic languages occur earlier in the second set of the creolisations that create English when the Anglo-Saxon language fuses with old Norse to create the language of the 9th and 10th centuries. That is when the Germanic gender and case structures go.

[@caadmaster5175]

Imagine "The promised Neverland" but with no mother figures like Isabella. Pretty interesting to think how it would end up.

[@bleedmagic88]

How would the "adoption" work if there's nobody in charge tho? But still, that's a pretty dope concept ngl

[@carllarsen]

children of deaf parents develop sign language much earlier than spoken language is learned in hearing households.

[@randomt800kiddo2]

i mean having deaf parents kinda adds some urgency to t

[@terryenby2304]

Not always. Perhaps on average though? Do you have any statistics ?

[@hopelessent.1700]

Somehow I see that more possible as kids are more accustomed to visual learning with introductions of shapes, sign language seems quite an easy task for an infant.

[@sharibigay4712]

That is interesting. I know my serverly autistic son seemed to understand and respond to both sign language and the stick figure cards earlier then to speech. We always used oral and one of the other at the same time. Luckily he speaks pretty well today, but still will use movie and other known sayings to try and communicate.

[@rockbandinthusiast]

@@randomt800kiddo2 he said deaf, not dead

[@tylerthom338]

I have a twin brother and I can say that when we had to go to speech classes when we were younger. I never really knew why but we would understand each other perfectly but no one else could. Still a lot of my friends wont understand when we are talking to each other.

[@meatybtz]

My older brother translated for me when I was extremely young and I was a "late talker" but I could talk to my brother just fine.

[@abbigailfrazier470]

THAT IS CRAZY!!

[@beth7921]

I think it’s just spending a lot of time with the person. Like when a parent can understand their child but no one else can.

[@littlewyzard]

was about to comment my twin sister and I definitely still have our own “language” and we often translate for each other lol

[@henrycaver9249]

My twin brother and I spoke in a “language” that didn’t make sense to anyone else before we were able to speak English

[@edwardjohannes360]

My mom told us that my twin brother and I spoke a language we made up before we learned English.

[@jonsealartist]

Am I the only one suddenly distracted by his pronunciation of Nicaragua

[@orlandoedeleon96]

No.

[@selenafigueroa8236]

It bothered me so much. I couldn't focus and had to rewind the video. ☹

[@sambelkowitz8419]

Bothered me so much I had to look at the comments to see if someone said anything about it, thank you

[@Victoria-cm7yh]

ManaGEWa, capital of NicaraGEWa.

[@oldesertguy9616]

Yeah, it was extremely grating for some reason. Usually I'm okay with a mispronounced word, but that was just weird.

[@thompsonmackenzie8957]

In Canada, a language emerged in the 18th Century, known as Michif, which is one of the most remarkable fusions of several languages. It retains most of the grammatical structure of the Cree and Ojibway languages, but it has some grammatical features from French, and much of its vocabulary comes from French and Gaelic. However, the transformations involved are extreme. It cannot be understood by speakers of any of these other languages. It developed into a fully formed native language, spoken at home, and the first language of the Metis people. It was also widely used in trade and diplomacy. For a hundred years, it was a thriving language, spoken from birth in Metis homes, but in the later half of the nineteenth century it was gradually displaced by French, which was promoted by the clergy and schools. It is still spoken today in some remote communities, but mostly by the elderly, as the young have overwhelmingly adopted English. Nevertheless, it still has some enthusiastic supporters, and there is a KZbin cooking show in the language.

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

Nice

[@thompsonmackenzie8957]

In response to a question: In Canada, the term "Metis" has three different usages. There is the broader meaning of anyone with mixed ancestry of Aboriginal Canadians and others. A second is that which the government uses, in other words people who have the legal status of Metis, which is distinct from the legal categories of "Indians" and "Inuit". All together constitute "first nations", but their legal relationships to the federal and provincial governments differ. A third use of the word, which is what I referred to in my post, is the distinct historical cultural group that evolved in the upper Great Lakes area, the Hudson's Bay lowlands, and subsequently spread onto the western prairies. This culture came to see itself as a distinct "Metis people" with traditions and customs of its own. The Metis people, however, did not identify themselves by the use of single language, by a single religion, or by any particular "racial" inheritence. Far from it, the Metis thrived as traders, diplomats, trappers and buffalo hunters with a particular form of democratic social organization. The ability to speak many languages was one of the keys to their success as traders and diplomats. One famous Metis family was known for its fluency in seven languages. Everyone was welcomed into this culture if they chose to live by its rules and principal customs. While a majority of them came to be Catholics, many were also Presbyterians, Anglicans or Methodists, and ancient aboriginal religious ceremonies and traditions continued to be practiced and respected. In fact, the Metis people of the western Canadian prairies included in their ancestry people from every aboriginal group in Canada, as well as numerous French Canadians, Scots (lots of them), Orcadians, Irish, Norwegians, Germans, Finns, Icelanders, a considerable number of Africans, and a surprising number of Hawaiians and other Polynesians (who entered the fur trade from the Pacific coast). Michif was not the only creole language used by the Metis people. Another one, known as "Bungee", mixed elements of Cree, Dene and Gaelic. It is thought to still have a few living speakers. Metis culture went into eclipse after the failure of the Northwest Rebellion, and many people who previously identified culturally as Metis either moved into the big towns and came to see themselves as French Canadians, or moved off the plains into the northern Cree reserves and came to see themselves as Cree or Ojicree. Some stuck to their heritage and continued to self-identify as Metis. Since the 1970s, however there has been a substantial cultural revival, with various specific traditions being revived (such as particular music and dance styles), and with some efforts to keep the Michif language alive. So the context for the Michif language is that it was used by many of the Metis People, a specific cultural group in the Canadian North and West, but was not their only language. But they were definitely not the only people in Canada of mixed European and Aboriginal heritage. Throughout Eastern Canada and on the West Coast, there were other mixed people who had their own things going, and did not participate in the specific Metis culture of the plains. Among them, there have also been creole languages. In British Columbia and the Yukon, a language known as Chinook Jargon was used for a long time by both aboriginal and european people. During the time of the earliest intrusions of European fishermen in the maritime provinces, a creole language mixing Miꞌkmaq and Basque seems to have been in use. The Metis tradition of a society of people democratically ruling themselves, defining themselves by their individual virtues and mutual responsibilities, but drawing from every racial, ethnic, religious, and linguistic origin came into being by accident three centuries ago, but it was the model for the kind of country we are hopefully building in all of Canada, today.

[@TwilightRogue15]

@@thompsonmackenzie8957 This is fascinating and will give me quite the linguistic rabbit hole to research when I get time. Thank you for sharing!

[@storytellingchampion6438]

Cool

[@Jewbacca9000]

@@thompsonmackenzie8957 so your saying the Metis people are like Mandalorians. A way of life, not a race.

[@terryenby2304]

I spoke English and Makaton to my second child, and she ‘babbled’ with her hands like a child raised with sign as a language. She also still uses gestures and signs easily and clearly while speaking. It was to help her communicate during her toddler years, and to help me with my auditory processing disorder (I have perfect hearing but difficulty understanding words, it’s part of my autism). She is now almost 8 and incredibly clever, sociable, finds communication easy and is good at expressing her emotions and has great understanding and maturity for her age. She may well have been pretty much exactly the same without makaton input, but I thought it would be cool to share in case anyone is interested. I still use makaton sometimes when I am struggling to cope, and I hope to use BSL one day when I can afford to learn it properly.

[@Prototheria]

I'm glad you guys learned from each other. Thanks for sharing that.

[@ghostnoodle9721]

Sounds like you got an italian on your hands

[@terryenby2304]

Ghost Noodle I have never met Italian people? But I love the cuisine style. One day I would like to visit! If I can get medically stable enough.

[@KateGladstone]

What’s Makaton?

[@feline256]

So interesting about the prevalence of twin/sibling speak. Early in my mother's elementary teaching career, she taught a pair of twins who'd been severely neglected while younger. They were understandably delayed in academics and English, but conversed with each other frequently in their own advanced 'creole' like described in the video. She ended up separating their main assigned seating or they'd chat a lot during the lesson or even during tests!

[@johncounts2182]

next question: how many generations in do they start complaining and correcting eachother about saying things 'wrong?'

[@michaelcherokee8906]

Probably just one.

[@WolfgangDoW]

It takes 2 generations for ideologies to be completely corrupted. As soon as the original founders are gone basically

[@johncounts2182]

@Simon Simon lol

[@michaelcherokee8906]

@Simon Simon Beautifully illustrating the point so well I doubt you did so by accident.

[@JoeUrbanYYC]

Me: laughs at the ridiculous language experiments the ancients and medieval did. Also me: Has to look up the meaning of blandishments

[@skyden24195]

me too: "What did it mean?"

[@Sir.Ena9001]

Blandishment: a flattering or pleasing statement or action used to persuade someone gently to do something.

[@skyden24195]

@@Sir.Ena9001 :-) thanks.

[@Sir.Ena9001]

@@skyden24195 no problem

[@Likexner]

So? I dont think you understand this format.

[@vr6swp]

In the early 90's I worked with a guy who was from some tiny backwoods burg in SW Louisiana. Don't remember his name, but he looked kinda like Rickey from Trailer Park Boys. This dude had the weirdest hardcore creole / cajun accent I've ever heard, and it took a while for any of us co-workers to understand him (some never did). Thing was, he spoke French, and he said there were old folks where he grew up that didn't speak English, only French (this was in Louisiana, mind you). A co-worker fluent in French said the guy's French was almost perfect, with no american accent, yet could barely understand a word he said in English.

[@patheddles4004]

Some years ago I was on a train in Melbourne Australia, and there were some African guys there chatting amongst themselves. Took me quite a while to recognise the language - it was French, but the pronunciation was very different from what I'd learned in school. (caveat: it might have been an African language partially derived from French, like Afrikaans is partially derived from Dutch - I wouldn't have been able to tell the difference)

[@KezanzatheGreat]

There's a form of German spoken in Texas called Texas German (go figure). It's basically German with an American accent. Which is crazy, seeing as this dialect has been isolated from Germany for quite a long time. As a German learner, I can actually listen to someone speaking Texas German and understand pretty much everything they say. I also showed a clip of this to a native German speaker, and he too had no issue understanding what the speaker was saying. Language is crazy.

[@MementoMori1000]

Pat Heddles it was probably Haitians speaking creole our language is confused for french alot

[@tinnitusthenight5545]

Its astonishing to me that people are surprised when they find out other languages are spoken in the United States. Also Cajun and Creole accents aren't hard to understand they are just changing around vowels.

[@zerobyte802]

We hosted a French student one summer. We took him to New Orleans one day, and at the place we ate dinner the live band was a zydeco Cajun band. The front man kept throwing in Cajun French versions of everything he had said in English. Fabian looked at us and said "that is not French," with that disinterested ennui that only the French can muster. He then took a drag on his cigarette and blew a cloud of smoke which seemed to say "imbeciles. Wherever I may be, there I am surrounded by imbeciles."

[@starship8088]

Before watching the video I'm just going to say yes, it's more than easily possible. Nicaraguan Sign Language is a really good case study in this (without all the ethical issues). NSL was in large, created out of the blue by deaf children in a number of schools in Nicaragua in the 1980s. They had hearing teachers that were attempting to teach deaf children "how to talk". But when outside of class they developed their own way of communicating, and that evolved into Nicaraguan Sign Language. It's rather fascinating to learn about. they created this language separate from adult influence... EDIT: 11:40 Nice, nailed it! That was a fun study!

[@readmarx420]

Logical deduction says yes. Somebody somewhere "invented" language. Why couldnt it be kids.

[@kennethmclaughlin7574]

I've been in a business blaze hole for about a month. I've forgotten how smart simon sounds on this channel lol

[@danieltester5553]

Allegedly

[@SS-tu6kc]

Daniel Tester *allegendly

[@stephjovi]

I've just finished watching the latest Blaze. This video would be much more fun with some stupid Simon comments 😂

[@samshields777]

SS744 are you joking

[@DBurpees1]

It’s very jarring to go from one channel to the other. He’s like a totally different person.

[@dbcooper1492]

I’ve been watching Business Blaze a ton lately and coming back to watching Simon all proper and ACTUALLY READING THE SCRIPT is quite refreshing.

[@goosebump801]

Refreshing...but also disorienting 😂

[@andiward7068]

He always reads the scripts on BB, he adds commentary but the biggest difference is Danny's scripts sync with Simon.

[@jbos5107]

My youngest son has Down Syndrome and is very non-verbal. When he does talk I have a hard time understanding him. Yet my middle son who primarily takes care of us all can understand him. They're 17 months apart. It's amazing to witness. I'm a lucky mama to have such great sons(3) total.

[@NoPowerintheVerse]

I remember we had a patient come in for surgery one day who was deaf and I was so excited to be able to use sign language as I almost never get to. Alas I still didn’t get to. The patients’ family was Spanish speaking and they had actually developed their own form of sign language to communicate with her. It was actually really interesting to see.

[@bobateacuber7646]

Centrist libright

[@LunarFlare16]

@@bobateacuber7646 bruh this isn’t a time to bring up OP’s profile picture

[@ak5659]

As an ASL interpreter I've often been asked over the years if I know anyone who qan interpret 'Spanish Sign Language'. To which I always reply, "Oh, you have Deaf people from Europe, to country of Spain?". 100% of the time the answer is no, the Deaf people are from Columbia (or wherever). I the advise that they need to fing an interpreter who knows Columbian Sign Language.......SMDH.

[@RealPumpkinJay]

I wish there wasn’t a bird in my neighbourhood that sounds like an alarm clock and one that sounds like a car alarm. They’re highly disturbing.

[@justinakers3196]

Lolol sorry to hear that 😂

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

Teach them to say 'hello' or 'morning'

[@RealPumpkinJay]

@@alliedatheistalliance6776 I'd say you know as well as I do that won't happen.

[@RealPumpkinJay]

@@justinakers3196 It's really weird. I wake up from the silly bird doing his thing and then I realise it's just a bird, but by that time, I'm awake. It's rooster2.0 LOL

[@feline256]

I think it's in Illinois, there's a large community of local crows that, for generations now, dont "Caww" but beep just like an old early model of Ford.

[@ImCarolB]

A friend of my mother's told her that her son's kindergarten teacher had expressed concern that the boy seemed unable to use language. My mother had observed that the mother never left any opportunity for him to use language to communicate. All their verbal interactions were along the lines of "Do you want cereal?" "Grunt". What kind? Cheerios?" "Grunt" or "uh uh" "Lucky Charms?" "Grunt".

[@vociferonheraldofthewinter2284]

I was neighbors with a mother and young son several years ago. The mother had a serious speech impediment and had dyslexia and she was the only one teaching the son. On top of that she someone got it in her head that the best way to teach him was for her to mimic *him*. So they ended up with this babble baby language that they'd speak to one another. They could understand one another, but nobody could understand the kid. She would translate for him. When he started kindergarten the school rang alarm bells. The kid was in speech therapy for years. The reason there was such a struggle is that when he went home, he'd revert back to their language and she refused to speak to him in English. If there was a long weekend, holiday, or summer, he'd lose all of his progress.

[@ImCarolB]

@@vociferonheraldofthewinter2284 Wow! There are some amazing situations out there!

[@route2070]

This kind of makes me hope when we do colonize space, where children are born on a foreign planet, moon, or a space station, have a few languages over a small population (like 7 or 8 languages for 50 adults). So when children are born we can see the mashups of the various languages they create as they age.

[@myrinsk]

That would be really cool

[@louisaaliceyoung927]

They should call it Polyglot Island

[@milmillington1709]

Its Indian.. one of the countries with multiple languages.

[@collinb.8542]

"When".

[@leathernluv]

Something no one has brought up that I have found: Cuneiform was readable by the blind, unifying the readability of the written word... I don't suggest we go back to writing on clay, I'm pointing out that technology will always leave someone behind. < /tangent >

[@katherinetutschek4757]

That's really awesome

[@rinoz47]

That picture of genie always breaks my heart

[@patheddles4004]

We learned about her when I studied linguistics, and yeah it's heartbreaking.

[@agnesstrzykowska4300]

Since I've been teaching a language which is foreign to the region where I live, I've found that video very interesting. There were some bits of info I have not been taught during my linguistic and pedagogy studies!!! So I've learnt something new which I thank you for! ... and BDW, my daughter reacted and spoke the language she was spoken to without even thinking! She never mixed the languages, just switching between them.

[@unalsafiye]

A group of children where they have many stimulants in their environments and a child who is isolated in a constricted place is not comparable. Which one is this video about? Language is something we need to communicate. If there is no one to communicate and nothing to communicate about then of course no one would expect that child to develop one.

[@jaderunes]

Back when I used to do research on my family, I found a cousin of mine who was deaf, had met his wife (also deaf) at school to meet their needs in the mid-1800's. They had seven children, all of which turned out fine (according to family stories) How they learned to deal with 2am feedings and diaper changes back then I'll never know.

[@VeebsterTV]

Should do more niche language stuff like this, like maybe something on Esperanto

[@aguynamednathan]

Mi estas Esperantisto! Kaj jes, mi konsentas! Simon estu fari filmon pri Esperanto! I am an Esperantist and I agree. Simon should do a video about Esperanto.

[@bearcubdaycare]

Well, there are other invented languages as well, such as Spanish, which Spanish colleagues described as constructed by a king to unite his empire with a single language. (There are several native regional languages in Spain.) They found that native romance languages like Catalan are more intelligible to native speakers of other romance languages, than the constructed Spanish.

[@hildcit]

So... I’m not the only one who’s been wondering about this from time to time

[@brandym3926]

You're doing so good that a question that seems like an obvious answer to me still has me clicking. Loving your stuff. ✌

[@Star_Skiing_Starskski]

This was a particularly entertaining Today I Found Out video. Thanks for all you guys do!

[@KagamoneyLen]

As someone whose family is Nicaraguan, that pronunciation of Managua and Nicaragua hurt me inside

[@hyun6587]

I'm Asian American and it hurts my ears too lol

[@doraspoljar697]

As a person who knows how it's pronounced it hurt me too.

[@cathipalmer8217]

My family is not Nicaraguan, but I'm pretty sure Simon ruptured an artery in my ear. Seriously! Do all Brits just straight-up ignore the pronunciation rules of all other languages, or is this just a Simon thing?

[@llamallama1509]

@@cathipalmer8217 He's speaking English, not other languages

[@HansLemurson]

​@@cathipalmer8217 ​ Yes, the British are notorious for pronouncing things exactly as written, with no acknowledgment of foreign pronunciation. Case in point: the word "quixotic".

[@TBJ1118]

I am a neuroscientist working on language and speech using Zebra Finches as model. Loved the video, thanks!

[@booklover2190]

The things you stumble upon as a beginning writer... thank you this was so helpful!

[@chsinger96]

Finally someone makes a video about this, it's a topic that's been burning inside me for like 10 years🙏🏼

[@MBison-im2qy]

SCIENCE: ok, just one simple experiment for mankind. ETHICS: think again tech breath. SCIENCE: oh no, my arch nemesis

[@PriyanshuKumar-ni5ll]

underrated

[@0mn1vore]

It's interesting that you have a background music track in this, but it's so far down in the mix that it doesn't register as part of the video. I keep wondering if the neighbour's got their radio on or something, but when I pause this, of course I don't hear anything.

[@badman11221]

you're dropping loads of vids! I've watched more than a few across your channels in the last 24 hours! 👍👍👍

[@indigoace261]

Fascinating video. Thanks for sharing.

[@patheddles4004]

Great video. I have a degree in linguistics, and I was honestly bracing myself for at least some misinformation - instead I got a clear and accurate presentation of a bunch of the stuff that I knew, and even some stuff that I didn't already know.

[@zexin3897]

I feel like most of these product sponsors are just to give Simon a chance to flex the new stuff he has.

[@deanc91]

I dunno, I would never flex one of those godawful Vincero toy watches.

[@warlink4]

I feel like your life would be bettered if you saw him in business blaze.

[@StephiSensei26]

Bravo, well done! Fine episode.

[@normanhumphrey9695]

Very interesting and inspires the drive to find out more on the topic. Thanks for the video, oh and very cool watches too. Might just have to look at ordering one.

[@Khangel]

“Lift your foot (from the gas pedal). There are children playing here.” Amazing to see a sign in Creole shown here!

[@Leftatalbuquerque]

I know that one modern criticism of the movie "Quest For Fire" is that the characters depicted would have had a far greater grasp of language than what was portrayed.

[@Paula-bg3to]

I can definetely confirm the sibling thing. My brother and I are very close in age,shared a room until I was 12 and also went to the same kindergarten and class from 5. grade on, so until moving out from home we used to spend nearly the entire day together. We didn't even knew we used our own "language" until our older sister asked us to speak more clearly at least when her boyfriend was with us because he often couldn't understand what we were saying. Then she also told me that it often isn't easy for the rest of the family to understand us but they have gotten used to it. Also my parents told me that they know immediately when I just spoke to my brother because I'm speaking different than when talking to anyone else.

[@juliaware7504]

Super interesting - I'm a nanny for a Deaf child and its been incredible to watch her acquire language in English and Auslan. She used to use words in English that had similarly signs in Auslan - she would say sick for wet as the sign is the same, she couldn't pronounce her brothers name so gave him a verbal sign name. Her language skills are quite advanced now in comparison to her peers, possibly from having two languages.

[@lukadollart9860]

"Twin speek" can be so fascinating to hear, and from my observation, twins and children close in age tend to develop communication skills a bit easier, seeing as they have a peer to practice with. The downside is that it can be a bit tiny harder for them to learn their actual native language, because they have one that works so well already 🤣.

[@DayZeroGaming]

I play hard content such as raids etc. On the division 2 and ghost recon breakpoint with deaf players and foreign players daily. The way people learn to work together is fantastic

[@biggiecharinga5360]

This guy is underrated. How many channels do you have I want to follow all

[@jkdubya85]

I've never heard Nicaragua pronounced that way.

[@AnnaBell033]

Jarrod Wade I can’t un hear it...

[@Hollylivengood]

Right? He rips out French like he was born there. German like a pro. Russian even! Every time a Brit has to use any South American language It's butchered. I wonder if he does it on purpose to be funny.

[@calebneff5777]

If you’ve never heard a Brit say Spanish words or things from the Latin world, buckle up. It’s incredibly frustrating. I know they don’t mean to be, but it feels extremely disrespectful to me. Like, could you ever imagine someone from Nicaragua pronouncing the city as “min-agg-you-uh”? No, never. Anyway....major pet peeve of mine.

[@lukec1471]

Caleb Neff it does seem intentional, I seriously don’t understand how he got that pronounciation :/

[@Erin-hq2bz]

I’m British and I’ve only heard it pronounced like that - sounds like it’s a widespread error here! How do you say it correctly?

[@heyyyitstori9800]

i’ve always wondered this but it’s slightly frowned upon to test on babies

[@FreyaF...]

Not slightly, SERIOUSLY frowned upon by any ethical person.

[@terryenby2304]

Only *slightly*.... I think if you have your own children as long as it’s not technically abusive it’s not illegal?? 🤷🏻

[@notkaitlyn5368]

Slightly hahaha

[@stitchfinger7678]

@@terryenby2304 it wouldnt be for fun, it would be for SCIENCE :D lol

[@robertkruse2360]

"Slightly"; only in countries like the U. S. A, the Netherlands, France, etc... Now, iiiiiif one is willing to travel.... to........ I don't know.... places like 'China,,, etc, etc,...

[@panainpublic]

I remember when I was little, I was on vacation in Italy(?). We were at this resort with a pool and playgrounds and all the fun stuff. So one day, I was playing around, going down the slide, whatever, and there was this Danish girl. We ended up playing together, but since I didn't know any Danish, we ended up pointing and using simple signs. I distinctly remember her pointing at the playground and me shaking my head, and my mom asking why I wouldn't go anymore and stuff. Never seen her since (that is, not knowingly). It's definitely interesting how we could communicate quite easily for that afternoon. It's one of my fondest memories.

[@charredhusk]

Do have to say this was a very interesting video. Also, I already bought one of the Vincero Marble Rosso watches a few days ago. Will get here Tuesday, but I do have you to thank for mentioning them. I know not everyone is into the “viral marketing” strategy that Vincero uses, but their products are actually very nice.

[@SB-uk5wx]

I think it would happen quite quickly. When my daughter was about 18 - 24 months she would just create words for things if she didn't know what they were called. Once she created the word she stuck with it. Some of those words lasted up to a year and ended up being adopted by the family 😂 I realise a full language is quite another thing. But she was already being taught an established language so there was no incentive to go any further than this. I have no doubt if the scenario arose, children would have no problem developing a basic language which I imagine would develop in complexity as they aged and further still over subsequent generations

[@Terri_MacKay]

Our family also uses words that we "invented" when my sisters and I were children. In fact, they would become the commonly used word for something, and were even passed on to our children and grandchildren. The words would sound ridiculous to anyone else, but they have just become common words within our family.

[@SB-uk5wx]

@@Terri_MacKay Right? It's so funny. I still call broccoli "goyan"

[@Terri_MacKay]

@@SB-uk5wx Macaroni and cheese is "moany cheese" and breakfast is "bekkits". 😂

[@SB-uk5wx]

@@Terri_MacKay Strawberries are dropidres 🤣

[@vicfontaine5130]

My 23 month old calls blueberries papitas and tie wraps neenos, now we call them that

[@bryandepaepe5984]

I have distinct memories of my first year and remember understanding what people were talking about. I wanted to speak but did not have full control of muscle movement and couldn't. To me it seemed it wasn't a matter of "learning to" but rather that the brain to body connection had not fully developed because "learning to" walk had the very same issue.

[@ZenekandSashasHearing]

I was thinking about Nicaraguan Sign Language during the first half of this video, so I'm glad it got included! It's such a fascinating story.

[@austy_whasty7941]

This was one of the better ones in a while you can tell the time line of the recording by the beard length and set and clothes

[@StormTalara]

I’m sure there was a story of a family of kids whose parents had died and they grew up in complete isolation and they had developed their own language. Wish i could remember the story now. As to developing your own language, that is true. My partner and i have basically developed our own version of Spanglish. Neither of us spoke a word of each other’s language, and yet we learned to communicate even without a translator. It’s amazing how malleable humans are with language.

[@athenovae]

“Nicara gu a” 😭

[@qkranarchist3015]

One of the best from this channel. The info was well organized, great companion photos, long enough to get an in-depth understanding without going in too deep for casual viewing, and the host was understandable. All great respect to the host, I find his style of spee h seems artificial (in similar vein as like a barker) and it's hard to listen to reducing my interest to keep listening to several episodes in a row. Again, all due respect to the host and no insult meant, just my opinion.

[@crisr.8280]

The answer you provided to this question was quite thought-provoking. As a language major, English, here in the Philippines, I find this fascinating. We a variety of dialects here aside from our two primary languages, English and Filipino, and there are variations for each major dialect due to internal migration.

[@bobveinne2439]

Episode 394 of "Why Was This Recomme- Oh Hey This Video is Kind of Interesting!"

[@xpusostomos]

I actually conducted this experiment.. sort of.. my wife and I resolved never to teach or utter the word "no" in our children's presence, on the theory they could never refuse our orders, lacking the language to express it. As it turns out, "no" was about the first word they were uttering. It turns out it's really hard to stop children learning from people around them.

[@toma4474]

It’s the first word they should learn or they will become doormats

[@xpusostomos]

@@hihi-kv8kv you don't have kids right? Kids are willful

[@e.e.s.6076]

@@xpusostomos XD, exactly

[@From_A_Diverging_Timeline]

This sounds made up

[@UssyMustyYS]

I've had this thought since I was a teenager. I'm glad someone is thinking about this.

[@FatRonaldo1]

School kids talking in slang is almost like learning a new language, I could have a conversation with some of my friends that no one outside my area or age range would comprehend at all, it’s incredible

[@khippolytewade]

we might see this happen on Mars one day

[@ericstamps4717]

@Language and Programming Channel and yet, ISS

[@ericstamps4717]

@Language and Programming Channel shielding tech is progressing every decade. it's only a matter of time before it can be done. maybe a long time, but still...

[@wolfzmusic9706]

@Language and Programming Channel if we found a planet like earth, we could live on it. also earth is literally in spacr

[@wolfzmusic9706]

@Language and Programming Channel if we found a planet like earth, we could live on it. also earth is literally in space

[@TimboSlice69420]

Love living in Scotland me and my mates used to smoke weed on the beach and stare at the island that experiment was carried out on and fantasize what we'd do if we swam out there, so much history here it was also used as a quarantine island during the plague

[@MommaLuigi]

Good job, Vincero. This guy is the perfect salesman for your brand.

[@shieldon530]

fun fact: the sign at 8:42 in haitian creole is basically telling/warning kids not to play in the area. the first three words, “lévé pié aw”, are particularly interesting. literally meaning “pick up your feet”, it’s basically a phrase used colloquially to mean beat it! language is so neat haha

[@pia_mater]

I've heard a theory that most words try to imitate the sound of the body part that they're associated with. For example, in many languages, words related to the mouth usually have a labial sound (m, p, b, w, f) because these are the consonants that are pronounced with the lips: English: *m*outh, Spanish: *b*oca, Georgian *p*iri, Vietnamese: *m*iêng, Arabic: *f*am, etc. I think sound symbolism is a fascinating topic but its not talked about much

[@pabslondon]

Well the baby word for mother is similar in many unrelated languages simply because the easiest sound for a baby to make when opening their mouth is “maa’

[@veselabandova5005]

The examples are not enough representation, there are many, many languages and you showed only 4. One counter example from me- In Bulgarian mouth is "usta".

[@aidantomhave259]

To skip the sponsor, click below 1:23

[@lel7841]

Thank you. I normally don't mind listening to his sponsor pitches but that particular 1 was way too long

[@deemariedubois4916]

Fascinating. Something new to ponder.

[@garethbaus5471]

My younger brothers were so close that both of them sounded like they had a speech impediment when they were younger, one did actually have difficulty speaking and the other just learned from him.

[@MuninnMyrkvi]

"Nicaragyewa" Simon is creating his own pidgin language as this video progresses.

[@dalilaa8791]

I have a question I’ve been dying to know for years, if the top layer of my finger was sliced off when it healed would my fingerprint come back? And if so would it be the same?

[@katherinetutschek4757]

I think I've heard of criminals intentionally burning/scarring their finger pads so they wouldn't leave fingerprints. But it might depend on how deeply the skin was cut.

[@VegemiteQueen1]

yeah just comes down to how deep/how much flesh was removed. if it's enough to deform your finger, then that print is gone. we got some wicked injuries in high school making lino prints with super sharp blades, and none of the prints were affected long term.

[@gwynyvyr]

I was born in Germany to American parents. I had two main babysitters for the first 2 years of my life (my mother became ill and was in and out of the hospital) One babysitter was German, the other was Japanese. We moved around Europe several times, so I lived in France, The Netherlands and Belgium as well. By the time I was 4, I spoke a sort of patois of English , German, Japanese, French and Dutch. Sometimes using words from all those languages in one sentence.Only my parents could understand me...and frequently they had difficulty doing so!

[@Rune_Fencker]

Yes! I've been wondering about this forever

[@0therun1t21]

Before this starts or I read any comments I'm going to say yes, they would have some sort of language, however rudimentary. After all, it's happened before, right? Ok, about to see if I have to eat my idea.

[@JohnVKaravitis]

6:15 "In fact, many children go through a phrase..." LMFAO!

[@Hollylivengood]

In nicarag-ue-a. While driving a jag-ue-error.

[@kindlin]

@@Hollylivengood You have CON-trih-buted well to this thread.

[@actionpeople04]

This has been one of my greatest wonders for a long time

[@giovanagouveia4265]

finally an answer for the question ive always been asking myself

[@personunkown9847]

The twin language feedback loop thing made me think of when AIs talk

[@thedarkonestaint6105]

I'm always watching Simon like a baby watches an adult with candy. I love all his channels... What is it with bald, bearded British men ruling the internet? Between Simon and Jules from whatculture, I hardly watch anything else.

[@lukewarmwater6412]

before my daughter could speak she was having one of those days and I was the only parent home ( I am a man. first and only child) and just would not stop crying. I tried everything awkward first time dad me could think of. then I said "please little bit, I dont know what you are trying to say. when you get your words, when you can talk I promise we will, but for now please shut up!" I swear to you she never did that to me again. she would cry here and there, but not for long and usually for a reason. once she was able to talk, she kept me to my word cause good lord can that girl talk!!!!

[@ogretheshriek]

randomly thought of this concept so i looked it up and bRO im so glad to know this video exists