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. ===== Kate, http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina/advantages-of-formula.html Mom to Ursula (9), Sage (7!!), Benno (3) ""You can tell the quality of a person by how they treat people they don't need." ~ a wise dad http://kolina.friendtest.com :-) Try it! *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html