Gloria said, "I just wanted to share with you what my
5 year old Rose told me about
> 2 weeks
> ago.   She said she no longer needed
"milkie-milkies" as she was now
> smart
> enough.   She hasn't asked to nurse since this
proclamation."

I don't know if this is why Gloria and her daughter
call nursing "milkie- milkie" but I read a bit about
the Hawaiian language when we were there last year.
In several Polynesian languages a word is often
repeated to make it more so- so the word for "water"
might mean the water you drink, and doubling the word
for "water" (water water) would make it water in the
ocean, for example.  I don't know if I have the
example right but that's the idea.  Therefore,
"milkie- milkie" would mean something like "the real,
the important, The Milk".  :-)

apparently early recorders of Hawaiian viewed that as
a childlike way of speaking but linguists have
determined that it is really quite sophisticated.
I'm not a linguist and I don't know the term for that
type of word expansion, but I found it to be
interesting.

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they treat people they don't need." ~ a wise dad

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