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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
Yeah, but what the heck does "As long as the light" or "It's not near the light" even mean? Why would a toy company program a doll to say that?
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The point is, they wouldn't. The dolls say nothing because babies say nothing. It's infantile gibberish and thus is bound to be construed as all sorts of things. We adopted all three of our kids after they had started speaking, so I don't have any real experience with this, but I'm fairly certain that parents hear all sorts of strange things coming from their babies mouths all the time. "First words" aren't really words at all: they're noises that babies make. They become words when they receive the encouragement from parents to continue making certain sounds, to which they attach meanings.