Wee Tom's first word.

[bytepilot]

The advent of modern technology, especially the near universal presence of the internet has provided many new tools and methods for teaching even a very young child the beginnings of speech.
It seems wee Tom is well aware of this.
Today he said "Google!"

Comments

[theozzardofwiz]

Quick! Emigrate to somewhere Google doesn't have a stranglehold on culture... ah. Um.

[d_floorlandmine]

China?

[pengshui_master]

Does google-translate support babytalk yet ?

[d_floorlandmine]

"babe-elfish"?

[valkyriekaren]

Are you sure that wasn't just wind? I'm sure I once heard a baby say Slartibartfarst once but I don't think they were familiar with the works of Douglas Adams.

[bytepilot]

I'm entirely certain it wasn't intentional...

He's gurgling and making random noises at the moment, every so often there's a sequence that makes a word just by chance.

Google comes up quite a lot, as does Purple, and eeyoh.

Perhaps he wants to know the name of a particular tellytubby ?

[fractalgeek]

Was this to announce a nasty-smelling bodily function?

Quick! bring out the first chewable "my little console controller"!

[theozzardofwiz]

"Caution: May contain texels. Not suitable for children under 65 years due to risk of addiction."