Captain Jack is learning to talk. Mostly this involves him alternating between mumbling and screaming unrecognisable noises, along with some occasional recognisable words like "hello" and "wow" and "what". Sometimes it takes a while for the unrecognisable noises to be recognisable words - so if we hear what he is saying, or if he says a word, we usually try and repeat it back to him immediately.
But the latest phrase which we are starting to identify sounds a lot like "F*** you". Now I'm not going to pretend that Anton and I don't swear, but we don't ever swear at each other. It's possible that he could have overheard it from a movie or TV show, but I doubt it. No, we suspect that the real culprits are our upstairs neighbour.
I am sure everyone has that one annoying loud neighbour. If you don't, then watch out ... it might be you, and you should probably check that out. Our one annoying loud neighbour lives upstairs, and every weekend or second weekend, they start screaming at each other. Most of it we can't really hear, except for the one repeated phrase, which now seems to have been picked up by Jack.
So now our conundrum .... we like to repeat the words he says right.
We could ignore it completely, but with the frequency he hears it, it is
doubtful that he will forget it. So we have decided to respond to him
with something that sounds similar enough, so that hopefully he will learn what
we are saying instead ... "Thank you"....My only hope: That he doesn't think "Thank you" is an appropriate response to being sworn at!
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