I wasn't prepared for how innate verbal language, specifically stories, are. My kid would come home from preschool and accurately recite ten minute long books,

I wasn't prepared for how innate verbal language, specifically stories, are. My kid would come home from preschool and accurately recite ten minute long books, full of unknown words, the same way I idly hum a tune. It was a lightbulb moment for me- I had always wondered how oral tradition could possibly hold up over centuries, but my god we're wired for it.