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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 147 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Animal sounds are to get the kid to try out mouth noises as practice for more complex verbal expression.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago

I've met people who speak as if they've never tried to make any of these sounds.

They don't sound very good when you hear them.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 109 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I know nothing of childhood development, but considering the sound a cow makes is different depending on the language of the speaker, I'd assume it's less about teaching children the sound a cow makes and more about teaching the sounds that exist in your language.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 7 months ago

Exactly. I'm not exactly an expert on the topic, but we've been visiting speech therapist with my daughter since she was 3 years. It's all about learning the sounds that you will use, and connecting the sounds to animals is just to make it fun.

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[–] PiratePanPan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 94 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Basic verbal building blocks and a fun way to get kids speaking. It's like how a lot of schoolwork isn't really going to serve you much in life, but the habits / work ethic you pick up from it definitely will.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

schoolwork builds habits and work ethic?

If anything it just taught me that life is bullshit and nothing matters because it's all manufactured, but maybe that's what i get for not being impressionable.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well for people who aren't hopelessly broken, it can be very beneficial

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

that's cool, so what are we doing for people who are hopelessly broken?

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

cool, so i get to moo at people to pretend like im normal, cool.

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

i don't think i'm getting it, can you moo at me for example?

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Which direction are you from Michigan?

sure, good enough.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If it's not a skill you can apply in a toxic warehouse/office we should not teach it at all

/s for psychotic anarcho capitalists

we love a good psychotic anarcho capitalism posting in this household :)

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Not to mention testing/practicing recall.

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 75 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I've mooed at cows and had them moo back. Granted, I don't speak cow, so it could've told me either, "thank you," "nice weather we're having," or "go fuck yourself."

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What they're saying is a moo point.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You know, like a cow's opinion

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 2 points 6 months ago
[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 11 points 7 months ago

"they have spoken the words of our elders, maybe humankind and cowkind share the same ancestry?"

...and thus, the cow level was born.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 5 points 7 months ago

I think moo know what they were saying. Moo should not lie to us.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 5 points 7 months ago

Cows can tell you're not a cow and can't speak cow, but probably recognize an attempt to communicate.

Or is that cats? Maybe possibly it works for cows too.

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 63 points 6 months ago (7 children)

If you never moo'd at a cow or baa'd at a sheep you never lived

[–] lightnegative@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Cows don't even go moo most of the time.

They go NEURRRGH NEURRRGH

[–] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

Yeah sheep go "MEH" like they're singularly unimpressed at everything

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So this is why I get death stares from cows; not speaking to them in their native language.

When I was a kid, my sister and I would play a game on road trips called, "Hey Cow!" It's a Midwestern game.

Basically, you hang your head out the car window when you see a field of cows, and scream, "HEY COW!!" at the top of your lungs. You get a point for every cow that looks at you. You take turns yelling at cows until the road trip is over, or until you lose your voice. Usually, it was the latter.

My mother let us play this game because we would lose our voices early on, and then the rest of the road trip would be silent.

[–] flying_sheep@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago
[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Did any people ever look up?

[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

We usually played this game out in the Midwest farmlands, so there was rarely any people in the cow pastures. But yes, if there were any people out there, they would look up too.

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 24 points 7 months ago

Well if you had learned about the animal sounds you'd know why the cow didn't say thank you

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hmm... not that I know such things but I think kids have a natural fascination with animals. Go along the path that works.

[–] Chinchillax@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago

This sounds likely. I’d have to imagine at that stage of life the very concept of learning how to learn something for the first time is monumental.

What they’re learning isn’t as important as learning something for the first time. Since animals are so interesting, it sounds like a reasonable thing to start with.

I imagine it also has to do with establishing and reinforcing the concept that “things make noises and so can you”

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I still moo at every cow I see. It feels right.

[–] UckyBon@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I never see a real cow in day-to-day life, so I only moo in the dairy isle.

[–] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago

Look, I'm just saying that sometimes I'm up on my cow-brained bullshit mooooooooooooo

And also what if you have to learn COW

[–] cymbal_king@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago
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