Zoe can say pretty much anything she wants to, but she has some made up words that she uses pretty consistently. (Remember the Eckhart debacle? Similar.) The two she uses most often:
Yiicanyou! This is always said very enthusiastically, and often to herself in the mirror. It’s as though it’s an affirmation of some kind. Sometimes it becomes yiicanme, but not often.
Robock. We’re fairly sure this is her version of a swear word. Not like a mutation of an existing swear word- her own word that she uses when she’s frustrated at someone. If you tell her to do something, or more usually, to stop doing something. and she doesn’t agree, she’ll stare you down and say “Robock!” very sternly. We thought she was saying “robot”, but when we asked her what it meant she said it meant “oh no”, which is what we were telling her was the phrase she needed to use instead of
Crack! which is her version of the word “crap”. Which is my fault that she knows. In my defense, I use it nowhere near as often as she does, and I stopped using it completely when I heard her say Crack! for the first time.
