AIBU to find certain cutesy shortening of words slightly vomit inducing

[mumsfretter]

when said in a cutsey voice by a grown adult.

For example narna instead of Banana..

Or ickle instead of little

Jesus christ yoghurty how on earth did you respond??

I still say doggie and horsey when talking to DD2 (3), but not DD1 (7), I hope anyway. She would probably tell me off if I did. I've stopped saying "Ta" though as she can say "Thank you" now.

I maintain baby talk is still the only way to talk to cats though.

I had to end a friendship with someone who insisted on telling me when she left the room that she was going for a weewee or a poopoo.
She had no children.
Grim

Yes it is very annoying but not as bad as calling the toilet Mr Flushy, the washing machine Mr CleanClean and telling Mr Chair off when ds fell and hit his head on chair

of course I found it cute when ds could not prounce words i still do Batman Movill Poisen Arvy tickles me

I do use baby talk when having a chat with my cat though

At first I didn't say anything (wasn't sure whether there was a good reason why she was talking like that- very mindful, me ) on subsequent visits I asked her to repeat herself and on one occasion, snapped 'FGS, you have to stop talking like that, or we'll all be at it'

Since then, she very rarely does it around me and we get on well- DP tells me she still talks like it to him on the phone.

I studied linguistics for a long time and I still have no idea what the argument is about 'baby talk helps children develop language skills'. No, repetition and context does.

I don't think it does any harm though either. It's just important that you talk to them, basically.

yoghurty very good - polite at first, then firm and then, only then, resorting to demanding normal human behaviour!!

' pumpkin' , does your child really have a large orange head? and 'princess' esp. when said in a silly voice, it just says one thing to me a potentially spoilt brat, although i'm sure that's not always the case.

How about 'puffin', 'muffin' and 'muffinkin'? Are they acceptable?

I agree with Woozley re talking to to babies and children.

Being a childminder, I have found though, that parents who talk to their toddlers like they are 6 month old (or like they are cats, going by some posters above ) have children that respond in a like manner. Parents that talk to their kids like they are people and not ickle bubba baby wabies have children that talk better and respond with better behaviour. This is purely anecdotal! I have not one ickle bit of evidence to support this!

Yoghurty, is she a furby?

1. Can't stand mums and dads that call each other mummy and daddy. Weird.
2. Baby talk. This is why children can't talk properly. Talk to them like they are people FFS.
3. Grown women shortening their name so that it ends in y or ie. and women who put a heart above their i.

Grrrr.

Hate them all esp luff

Can't believe we've got to page 5d and nobody has mentioned the thing my Fil does that makes my teeth itch.

He replaces all r sounds with a w.
And removes all y sounds too, now I come to think about it.

'Does oo want to come to Gwandad'

Vom.

As if I'm not going to have enough trouble just making sure ds says lunch, not dinner, dinner not tea and barth not bahth ;)

SHRIIIEEEK Well, furbies you can put in a drawer when they get annoying....

Oh no pwease don't put furbie poo poo in a dwawa

Oh dear, Cocky - my name ends with a -y anyway (hangs head in shame), but I can't bear women who change the natural -y to -ie! Someone once addressed an officialish letter to me with my name ending in -ee, which made me very stabby (stabbee? stabbie?) indeed!

i used to HATE the thought of being called mummy when i was expecting my first child [i'm not dead or wrapped in bandages after all] so the kids were encouraged to say mum as soon as possibe. my first ex husband up until he last saw our daughter two years ago[she was 15] "you'll always be my baby," YUK! she didn't care much for it either and told him what to to with the comment, can't say i blamed her it sounded abit pervy/weird.

oh dear, I tell my (teenage) girls "you'll always be my baby" every day. They pretend to feel sick but they love it really - honest

boschy, you are mum, mums are meant to say those sort of daft things but it doesn't sound good from a father love the cheesy grin!

DDs and cats get called "sausage" quite often. I've no idea where this came from.

I can't stand "pop", as in "I'm just popping in/I'll just pop this down", or "toms " for tomatoes.
I had to leave the school lunch threat as all the "I just pop some cherry toms in" was making my eyes bleed.

Lexagon just reminded me, hate it when people say "bob" as in "im just going to bob out for a bit" or "i'll bob back later" or the worst one... "bob on" in place of "spot on"

Its fucking stupid

Bugs the shit out of me when people put "jacket pots" or "need some pots" they're potatoes for fucks sake

Following on what is even more annoying is when people who've been on extended holiday or live abroad talk in English to English people but throw in the odd word in the language of the country they're in.

"Hi Frank, I've just had a cerveza down at the bar"
"Oh great we went out for an Agua sin gas"

You're fucking English, you don't speak the language just stop it!