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Kate tells us that she is “goge.” Now, in general, her speech issues seem to have really improved. Her vocabulary has expanded considerably. She has even blurted the occasional five word phrase. Hooray! Articulation, however, continues to be a struggle. Our new problem: Kate is constantly “goge” and we don’t know what that means.
Here’s what we’ve figured out so far:
a) Goge is not good. You do not want to be goge. If you feel goge (or is it goke? goque? gogue?) you also want to whimper.
b) Goge is related to cold. When Kate fills her cup with ice and holds it for a while (she adores ice), she becomes goge. She will tell you that her hands are goge. You can verify this by feeling them. Yep, they’re cold.
c) Goge is not the same as cold. Temps have been hitting 80s and 90s here and Kate is goge inside the house (too much airconditioning?) and outside.
d) Kate is most likely to be goge when she does not want to nap.
e) Boredom and feelings of dislike can also trigger goge-ness.
e) Hands, teeth, bottoms, all sorts of body parts can be goge.
f) “Me goge” should not be confused with “Me gog.” “Me gog” means that Kate has transformed into a four legged creature who “oofs” and hops across the floor. Being gog is apparently very funny, being goge is nothing to laugh about.
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Hee hee! Love it. James also starts all his words with “G”–he eats with a “gork” (which works for either spoon or fork), not to be confused with wanting to go to the “gark” to play on the “ging”, which is not to be confused with his “gink” of milk, also sometimes called a “gup”. We also have a “gog” at our house, but the “gee” is equally popular as long as it’s not in a scratching mood. In the morning, we put on our “goks” before we put on our shoes…and, well, you get the idea. We have not as yet progressed to abstract emotional/physcial states of discomfort, but I’m sure when we do, it will most likely start with a G.
Couldn’t “goge” mean “uncomfortable” and couldn’t it be that she’s not yet figure dout that “cold” is a particular kind of discomfort?
Robin–How old is James?
Jim–I think you’re right.
She is brilliant! How fabulous to coin such a flexible word for discomfort /displeasure! (If I were not so far removed from my linguistics years I could dazzle you with correct terminology. Probably still could, if I tried. But the thought makes me feel kida goge.)
Sorry to be slow in replying, but he’ll be two in October.