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Monday, August 29, 2005
Rebecca has started to refer to the television as 'Bob'. ('Bob? Yeh? Yeh? Bob?') Not sure whether this is metonymy (or should that be synecdoche, I always get them mixed up) or whether she specifically wants to watch Bob the Builder as opposed to whatever technicolour commotion happens to be on Cbeebies at the time. Rebecca's friend Robert used to refer to his parents' computer as 'Bob' because he was convinced that the computer's prime directive was to provide access to Bob-related material online. (See above link.) So who knows what goes through the little baby brain?
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