Re: Babbling Day (21 October)

On 10/21/2024 3:30 AM, Ross Clark wrote:

"...another day that has come out of the United States without any obvious origin or reason."
(Various web sites throw out different ideas about why there should be such a day. None claim responsibility for it.)
To fill up the rest of the page, Crystal talks about "babbling" as a particular phase of children's language development.
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbling

Not sure if this is relevant but ... Timing seems to concur with the voting time for the major US elections. Even my untrained ear tends to associate what I hear with the word babbling. The could equally call it "stumping and thumping time" but babbling with the hint of childhood and lack of mature brain control just might be more accurate; both for the production and the gullible consumption of the sounds.
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Jeff Barnett