But "shzzz" is a multi-purpose word. It goes a long way around these parts; shoes, juice, cheese. All with very subtle changes of tone that often only Silvia and I can differentiate. She does a lot of translating for Jack. There is also "baa": bottle, ball, bar (as in cereal bar). "Meh" is for milk. He will specify if he wants a cup of juice or a bottle of milk. Woe to you should you mix it up. Jack has a VERY distinct sound for, "You have FAILED ME".
He's developed quite a vocabulary and we find him fairly understandable most of the time. More importantly than that, though, is that Jack understands US very clearly. We can send him on errands around the house (so fun!), tell him to put a certain thing away or give something to someone. We can also ask him which foods he wants to eat, which leads to his favorite new word.
"No". And also, "NO!". That ties into, "mine!" and conversely, "okay". But mostly just "no".
There are a dozen other cute variations on common words he has, but mostly just imagine the word, take the final hard consonant off the end (and possibly drop the first syllable), and you have the word. For instance, "remote" comes out as "mo" with a barely there "t" on the end. Sounds confusing for an outsider, but in the tradition of all close families, we understand him pretty well.
And if it's all in our heads or he's just messin' with us, it's still really cute.
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