On Sep 19, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Miles Jackson wrote:
> I'd read that as a sign of socialization into a commodity culture.
> Kids
> that age are sociolinguistic sponges.
It happened so quickly & forcefully. He almost never watches TV, and doesn't hear a lot of it from us.
And if you're a "sociolinguistic sponge," you must be pretty receptive to new stuff. Yes, Ian's right about the old and familiar - repetition is the bane of a toddler parent's existence - but novelty is pretty powerful too. Which must have something to do with why we're easy marks for the "New!" and why Sut Jhally is fighting a majorly uphill battle.
Doug