Monday, December 28, 2009

tuttoo tlott

Anna broke my parents' cuckoo clock yesterday. But Anna doesn't say cuckoo clock. She says 'tuttoo tlott,' because she replaces all 'k' sounds with 't's. This sounds quite funny in Estonian. She doesn't said kaelkirjak tuli tagasi (the giraffe came back), she says 'taeltirjat tuli tatasi.' She doesn't say, 'Issi, come here,' she says, 'Issi, tome here.' Poor Anna. Epp's aunt Reeli said that her son Tommi was three when he started making the differences between 'k's and 't's. Good thing his name is Tommi and not Karl or Kalle or something like that.

3 comments:

Ruudi said...

Haha, minu Anita does the same!
She can say "r" but not "k"...

Merike said...

My son also did that. There were some really cool words like "tota-tola" and "ledo totsid" in his vocabulary at that time :)

Ruudi said...

tätatitt ( päkapikk) and tata ...