Children's logic is amazing and wonderful, everything tends to work literally for them. By way of an example, a little about the Slovak language; to change from singular to plural, as in the example of the eye, would go; eye = oko [o-ko] - eyes = oči [o-chee]. Not so for Kyle, he knows that to make something plural, you simply add an 's', hence; one oko, two okos. This irritates my wife, Elena no end!
Another example of the literal approach to things; if it's sunny during the day, what is it at night? Yes, you guessed, it's 'moony'. Lately, everything seems to be developing a 'y' on the end in a familiar way. Some, such as "would you like some juicey" etc. have been going since very early on, but now, we notice that Kyle decides to add his own in strange places, such as; "Can I have a 'hotty' dog please mummy?"
If only life and language were as simple as kids make it, maybe we could all learn a lot from them?
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