if you took an animal away from its mother at birth and let it live with you alone, then it would learn to speak your language instead of barking or meowing or something. i figured that no one ever did it because it would be sad for the mother...
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- When i was little i used to think that a birth mark was the place on the body where you came out of the mother— bipbop
- I used to believe, that I am able to speak every foreign language only by learning "their" alphabet.— matej
- I would speak in gidderish, convinced that it was some foreign language I had never heard of— Molly
- I used to believe that if you had an animal listen to classical music, it'd eventually learn how to talk.Anon
- My Mother used to tell me only the good die young and I would live to be 100+ years old because I was bad.— William
- My brother used to believe that when we went to school dogs went to dog school to learn to speak and read— Matt