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I'd like to share something I read in the text book of my Language Acquisition class. It's a dialogue between two four-year-old boys. It's noted that they were walking around pretending to be robots:

1. I'm a missile robot who can shoot missiles out of my fingers. I can shoot them out of everywhere--even out of my legs. I'm a missile robot.

2. (tauntingly) No, you're a fart robot.

1. (protestingly) No, I'm a missile robot.

2. No, you're a fart robot.

1. (hurt, almost in tears) No, B!

2. (recognizing that A is upset) And I'm a poo-poo robot.

1. (in a good spirits again) I'm a pee-pee robot.

It's really splendid for a boy at the age of four to notice other people's emotion. When child B recognized that child A was getting upset, he began to make fun of himself so that he could make child A feel better. And amazingly, child A felt better, he even tried to response to what child B said in harmony.

I bet they're going to be successful sales men in the future. At least I think they're talented in socializing.

I'm so interested in socialinguistics that I think I'm definitely going to write my thesis in this area .