Miss RhinoLast night my friends and I discussed (over a stunning sushi dinner
) the concept of baby talk. The general consensus was that unless you are addressing an actual baby or a beloved pet, baby talk is probably one of the most annoying things a couple can do. Even imitating one of our close, baby-talking friends over the dinner table was enough to make me lose my appetite (unfortunately for me because the Dynamite roll was aptly named).
I've had a few baby-talking friends in my life, and I could never understand how or why this was considered adorable. Whenever I heard any remnants of the infant affection, I had to leave the room. I started being able to notice the signs of impending baby talk and would get out of there before things got too wishy-washy, lovey-dovey, or the worst of them all, ooey-gooey.
It started with the elevated, squeaky voice, slowly morphing into decreased enunciation, and was followed by nicknames that should only be reserved for Muppet characters.
Does anyone else notice this phenomenon sweeping happy couples all over the nation? Does this strange infantile roleplay strike anyone else as odd? Am I alone in this?
I don't know. Maybe it's romantic, maybe it's even sexy. Baby talk as a turn on? I've never tried that one. But I'm willing to consider that I've been looking at this idea all wrong.
If you are the other half of a baby-talking partner, do you enjoy it when the conversation takes that turn? Or if you are the baby talker, do you find yourself doing it without noticing? What is the appeal... or the un-appeal? Would you date someone who was a consistent baby talker?
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It happens when you are in love and happy. I'll admit I've done it in my recent relationship.
I only talk to my husband like that in private when no one else is around. We do it basically just to be silly. It's really funny to threaten each other, playfully of course, in baby talk.
Also, if I want something that I don't need I'll ask for it in baby talk. Works every time. =D He does the same thing to me though...haha.
My best friend and her boyfriend do it excessively. I don't mind if they talk to each other like that, but she often uses some of the words she'd use with him, with me, & expect me to think it's cute. I don't. It's actually obnoxious.
My boyfriend & I don't do it half as much as they do.
I do it...it sort of translates all the happiness I'm often feeling when I'm around my boy (:
But i think it's dumb to do it to actual babies, bahaha. They need to grow up hearing proper grammar and the like.
I thought you meant baby talk as in talking to babies. But to your SO? Why?
I do NOT do it, EVER.
I will do nonsense syllables, however.
I've never witnessed it. I never want to. Just no.
My boyfriend and I do it to each other but not in front of other people...I do it especially after we're done talking about something serious, because then we can laugh at how silly we sound and forget all about the serious talk.
ewww
it annoys the hell outta me
Ew. I'm not a baby and I wouldn't be dating a baby, so I don't see a reason for it.
lol my fiance and I talk like this with each other when we're home. Not so much in public, but it has accidentally slipped from time to time. We don't find it SEXY, we find it affectionate. Most of the time it happens by accident. It doesn't occur as often as it used to. :P
yes we do it to eachother behind the closet door. what is wrong with it???
It happens on occasion with my SO and I; started as mimicing how the kids at summer camp mispronounced things and became part of our normal behavior. I usually do it when I want to get my way lol. He caves pretty quickly.
Baby talk is a turn on for people with mommy fetishes, methinks.
@yourblondeness@xanga - hahahaha agreed!
@disorderedpersonality@xanga - Haha that's awesome. If it's for the good of getting my way, I would resort to anything... even baby-talk. You've got me there.
I call what I do LOLcat speak.
I really could careLESS what anyone else thinks of it.
Funny, my boyfriend and I don't have pet names for each other. We'll write them in text, but we don't say them on the phone or in person. It just feels awkward because we've never said them, so why start now?
Bad sign? I'm not sure. We've been together 1.5 years, so is it really so bad that we don't use pet names? I guess not. We seem to be doing fine without it.
I do use sweet talk with him sometimes, but without the "baby pleaseeee" and the other annoying stuff. I find my way around it and still use a sweet tone with him.
So I guess that's my form of it =)
it just depends for me, my last relationship, a little but the one prior to that one yes all the time.
hahahah nasty, man!
I started doing it without noticing, and then he did. I usually reserve it for private time, as I know I personally am repulsed when I have heard other people doing so. I can't explain it other than to compare it as a sign of feeling comfortable and unconditionally loved to the same extent (though not in the same way) that a little kid feels for its parents. Also, it helps me to be cute and get what I want. Definitely doesn't work on anyone else, except occasionally my dad.
I have to add that it is not at all a turn on, at least for me. Babytalk is about being cute, NOT SEXY. It's there usually during the opposite time, if anything... When we're all cuddly and not anywhere near fucking.
iit has its cute moments. but only when you are alone. & do not over do. & no it is NOT sexy! its cute. but NOT sexy.
nooo. both of us. NO TO BABY TALK. i honestly don't want to talk to my baby like that either. wtf.... no.... no baby talk. shiiiiit.
Umm, don't really know what baby talk is, but ill just guess. I think my ex use to baby talk, and its terribly annoying, and it is not sexy or CUTE. Because i dont baby talk, i think thats why i don't like it, but for someone who likes it, maybe they like the company of a baby-talker. All i wanted to say to him was "seriously, stfu or ill tape ur mouth".
lol how do you define baby talk, exactly?
I guess I do it when I'm on the phone or in private with my boyfriend, but in public, nope. We usually insult each other lol. :D