motherese

Joel Shoemaker is a librarian and a magician. He has a husband, two frogs, and a dog. His novel, bacon grief, is available on Amazon. "motherese" is in Short Circuit #11, Short Édition's quarterly review.

The brand-new baby is screaming. In French.In German.No, in French. It's definitely in French.It isn't obvious, at first. It's not like she's screaming for a Weiner schnitzel or demanding a baguette or something. She didn't come out of the womb in lederhosen. Is that even German? I don't know. The point is you really have to listen.She's screaming in French.It is a scientific fact. In a 2009 study, thirty German cries were analyzed against thirty French cries and there was a statistical similarity between the thirty within each group and major statistical differences between each group. The Fr

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