• Hegar@fedia.io
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    5 months ago

    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.

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      5 months ago

      But it’s very funny to respond to babies babbling nonsense with “yes, I see, an intriguing point.”

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        5 months ago

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

          • i_love_FFT@lemmy.ml
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            5 months ago

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

            No way my parents did that accidentally!