Lately Jemma, who has been using complex sentences since she was quite young, has taken to shouting out single words, like, "eat!" I won't say it's driving me crazy, but I feel a bit like I'm stuck in a 'Max and Ruby' episode. (If you're not familiar with this children's program, suffice it to say that Max's vocabulary is pretty limited... in any given show you usually only hear him say one word... over and over again.)
Maybe it's a kind of baby-talk... I know children sometimes have a hard time with becoming 'big kids', and do that as a way to process getting older.
Or perhaps Jemma has a newly gained appreciation for the economic use of language. It could just be that she's a poet rather than a novelist...
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