Comments on: What babies are really saying

By: parker

parker — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 20:47:57 +0000

Ah, my 3 month old paternal twin grand babies are precious and make me realize why I exist.

By: OBloodyHell

OBloodyHell — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 05:02:15 +0000

Patrick:
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/The_Baby_Translator

s03e24: “Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?”
https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Brother,_Can_You_Spare_Two_Dimes%3F

By: OBloodyHell

OBloodyHell — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 04:58:55 +0000

Anyone remember the old Sugar And Spike comic book?

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=181071
Cover art by Sheldon Mayer, scripts and art by Mayer

The idea was that babies/toddlers have their own language, which they forget when they learn English. The strips mainly focused on naïve confusion of cause and effect, and/or Sugar getting Spike into trouble, sometimes due to aforesaid confusion. Later on they introduced other toddlers for Sugar and Spike to interact with, particularly “Bernie the Brain”, a Gyro Gearloose type of character…

I loved them when I was a pre-teen, along with Archie comics (as well as “more serious” superhero fare).

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 01:18:56 +0000

The darker side of this very same topic: The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury. Unforgettable short story.

Eva Marie: Thanks for the Bradbury thumbs-up!

He wrote some indelible stories in his early days. One of them, “The Foghorn,” caught John Huston’s attention which led to Bradbury being hired to write the screenplay for Huston’s “Moby Dick.”

Some years ago I bought the Modern Library collection of Bradbury’s short stories. Most of them, like “The Small Assassin” and “The Foghorn” were written before 1960, though Bradbury wrote, I’m sure, until the day he died in 2012.

I don’t mean to be critical. That’s just the way it often goes with creative talent.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 22:55:13 +0000

“Thank you for watchin’
Please subscribe”.

No thanks.
Cute ending, very cute baby. Hope lots of folks watch him.

Fine 1 min worth of watching but it takes 3 min.
Babies are cute – I love ’em. Had 4. One’s married already, we’re waiting for grandkids (but no rush).

Their 17 year old cousin died in Feb, just before the funeral restrictions from COVID. Very sad. Babka (grandma in Slovak) went from 7 grandkids to 6.

Black Lives Matter. Really.
All Lives Matter.
Black pre-born Lives Matter.
Human Lives Matter.

Life is precious.

“… you don’t know what you got ’till it’s gone.”

Rich folk, and our society is full of them, don’t know how to be grateful.
I pray more remember to be grateful.

By: Library Nerd

Library Nerd — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 18:48:15 +0000

Estoy: someone else said that a long time ago, I can’t remember where I saw it, though.

By: PA Cat

PA Cat — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:28:54 +0000

Paul in Boston–

Cats speak too– in French!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1PsH3ei2uw&ab_channel=Paroledechat

By: Estoy Listo

Estoy Listo — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 00:02:33 +0000

Beautiful kid. I haven’t held a child like that in years, and man do I miss it.

Library nerd: Give yourself 100 points.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 22:08:39 +0000

The Simpsons (of course) did an episode like this. Danny Devito invents a baby translator. Very clever episode, unfortunately the only clip I could find on youtube has a weird echo.

By: Paul in Boston

Paul in Boston — Sat, 26 Sep 2020 20:22:25 +0000

Dogs talk too, though they’re more understandable.

https://youtu.be/zvkFtMUJ5Qg