lissalysikan | Thoughts About Baby-speak

One of the things that makes Baby's speech hard for people to understand is that context changes everything. For example "thing". It can come out as fin, fink, fing, thin, think, thing, tin, tink, or ting, depending on the sounds around it and the sentence structure she's using it in. "Daffin blons ober dere" = "That thing belongs over there". "Moob daffing ere" = "Move that thing here". "Doan knowed whadda fin iz" = "I don't know what the thing is". "Tings iz diffrin den specded" = "Things are different from what I expected". In other contexts, those same words can mean think, and the ones that are other words – fin, tin, thin, also can mean what they are. Plus how much she has been talking has an effect on her 'laziness' of speech. "Physics" turns to "physis", "pardicles" turns to "pardugles", the few "t" sounds she makes change to "d" or drop out completely, etc. Add in a complete lack of personal pronouns (no he/she/you/me/I) and a tendency to run all her words together into one giant explosion of sound and it becomes 'work' trying to figure it out. Fortunately, most of the time she's talking it's either to herself or the objects around her, not people.

Bye for now.