To be totally annoyed that Waybuloo does not use proper sentance construction.

[pigletmania]

There was a thread today on this but it was removed, but it did get me thinking. I just cannot stand the language used on Waybuloo, its not proper sentance construction. My dd likes it but is not fussed if she does not see it, and I would rather her not see tbh. Why cant the BBC make childrens programmes using proper sentance construction and proper English, ITNG is another one too but not as bad as the dreaded Waybuloo.

Maybe it's aimed at children of an age who themselves don't yet form "proper sentances" ??????????

Bit like this one

I agree with mouseface

and reality

Reality, when and why are you walking 100K? its a looooong way, can't you just get the bus or something

I don't object too strongly to lack of sentence construction but I do highly object to them calling children "cheebies" or whatever the godawful word is. Every time DS is watching it (and he loves it to bits, typically) I should "children" over the word cheebies - he has got the point now and stopped saying cheebies. I don't see the point of introducing nonsense words, when the characters mostly can say words properly.
If they can pronounce beautiful, a pretty complex word, properly - then they can bloody well say children. IMO.

I don't really like the show, but the yoga is good as DD copied it.

ITNG is awful!!!

why was the other one removed? how controversial can one be about waybaloo.

dd lkes it and does the yoga. she is 6 and had managed to learn to speak without the benifit of rsc standard drama on cbeebies

Doesn't bother me at all.

It is one program out of all the other voices they hear. How parents speak will over-ride pretty much anything else for now.

What I am dreading is when they hit teenage and start talking a different language entirely...

BO- you can be extremely offensive when discussing Waybuloo if you start saying you don't want your child to start speaking like a vile word.

And it is YOGO get it right peeps

Yoga would be far too sensibe. Cheebies and pipkins do yogo...

ah thanks, didn't read the thread.

I can't think of a single redeeming feature of Waybuloo. It is utter drivel of the highest order.

i do hate the pipkins though

I don't have a problem with it. I honestly can't see that it would have an effect on children's language, they are surrounded by such a wide, wide range of different ways of speaking English. An awful lot of the sentences that they hear from parents are not 'properly constructed'- we don't talk in the same way that we write.

I just dont like sentances such as Lau Lau pick strawberries for cheebies for example, what the hell are cheebies? Oh children I did not realise. Just a bit annoying tbh. And the voices grrrrr . Oh i think it was the op and she used a not very nice phrase. Oh I think that i should be on grumpy old women who comaplain about everything

ISNT - Thought it was Piplings????

oops meant complain, oh dear oh dear

lol, ok yogO then. DD only saw it the once...

she does copy the yogA on the wii fit though - she's awesome at the tree and half moon!!!

shame I missed the other thread, sounds like a riot

i thought pipkins were the children. whatever they are called they piss me off

Pipkins? I take it that it's not Hartley Hare, Pig, Topov the Monkey & Octavia Pipkins (shows age & runs away)

the only Pipkins I know

why did the other thread get deleted?

Piplings are sorry dont have a clue, but Cheebies I guess I am looking at it from an adult perspective, my dd does like it though and has the Waybuloo stuffed toys. She calls it Wayspoons as she cannot pronounce it properly.

But it's fantasy isn't it. Where the pipkins live children are called cheebies.

So that's OK.

It is shit though. I like show me show me best.

MMM it didn't last very long..........I read the OP, made a comment, rallied the troops on FB (well the thread title gave no indication of any reference to offensive terms, and I wasn't sure that many would read a thread about Waybuloo)(I have a LOT of MNers on my FB friends) by the time I got back to the thread to report the post the thread had gone.