gem diaries

[Amy L Sheldon]

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Brian MacWhinney wrote:

> Dear Sarita,
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> By the way, regarding your son forbidding you from taking notes,
> Ponori (1897) reports how at 1;6 his son produced a neologism and then
> told the father to go get a pencil to write down the cute gem!  Hurrah
> for individual differences!

	The same thing happened to me (as Ponori), with my daughter,
when she was 2 or 3.  Now she's a writer.

Amy Sheldon
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> --Brian MacWhinney
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