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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Baby-talk is a universal human phenomenal and almost certainly plays an important role in helping kids learn language.

The implication that not using baby talk somehow unlocks rapid development of language is simply not true.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

But it's very funny to respond to babies babbling nonsense with "yes, I see, an intriguing point."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Another good one is to suddenly look frightened and stammer out h-how could you know that".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is why the baby stage is so fun and the teenage stage is so damn annoying.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You can always troll teenagers by using their words in slightly off contexts.

No way my parents did that accidentally!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's a reason why "mama" or equivalent is such a common word for parents in completely unrelated languages

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Well completely unrelated is maybe an overstatement.

English and Chinese is the common example of unrelated "mama"s, but there is a non zero chance that they are distantly related - beyond the time depths accessable by the comparative method of linguistics.

It could be that "mama" or a very similar word dates back to like Ancient North Eurasians or some older population ancestral to both Chinese and English speakers.

If any one word could survive that long, some form of "mom" is a good candidate, but yeah the most popular theory is that something about the "m" sound makes it more likely to be in the word mama.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Idk man. There's this 3yr old girl that's a child of one of our family's friends. She's pretty expressive with her vocabulary. Like i can have full blown conversations with this girl without dumbing much down, and i think that might be due to her parents' pedanticalness.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

pedanticalness

pedanticness ... OOOOOHHHHH!

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Pedanticness is a noun that is considered obsolete and was only used in the mid-1600s.

I am only giving you a hard time bc (1) it's funny, all the more so bc (2) you are the police of these matters! :-D

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

You're supposed to use baby talk with them from about 15 years old and until they're 18, to really piss them off.