'Let Mummy zip your coat up'
I despise adults (usually mothers) who refer to themselves in the third person when talking to children. They seem to be trying to sabotage their kids' language development.

Any form of baby-talk enrages me, in fact. I spoke to my own kids in normal English with no reference to baa-lambs or woof-woofs.

With dogs though, I make allowances. They get 'Are'oo going for walkies? Eh? Eh? Walkies? Shall we put 'oo's lead on? Is'oo a good good boy for 'is Mum?'

Edit: it's often even worse than 'Let Mummy zip your coat up'. It's sometimes 'Let Mummy zip JACK'S coat up.'
Kids with parents like that'd be better off as orphans.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 11:54, 5 replies)

Which is odd,
because I often refer to your Mummy in the third person.

Granted, she usually _is_ the third person...
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 11:57, closed)

I think you'll find
you're thinking of your dog.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 11:58, closed)

No,
my dog's the second person.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:14, closed)

No, that's MY dog, the corgi.
How low can you get?
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:23, closed)

In your bed
(before anyone else says it)
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:01, closed)

No, he uses the dog's bed
and drinks from his bowl. If I let him.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:32, closed)

Totally agree. I refused to talk babytalk to my children when they were young. Probably pure laziness on my part - why would I want to teach them stuff twice? Is it a gee-gee or a horse; a bot-bot or a bottle, etc.. confusing for the child, more work for me, why would that be a good thing.

In the same vein, what on earth is a "baby foal" or a "baby kitten"

And not to mention wee wee, noo noo, poo poo, bot bot, tum tum, etc

No.. my children were speaking in coherent sentences when they learned to talk, none of this baby-talk gibberish.
(Freakmandu, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:21, closed)

Fuck yes.
Also, ditto on the baby talk to dogs... I hear myself cooing over my slobbering foolhound sometimes and cringe.
( Droog is too orangey for crows, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 12:34, closed)

We're missing the bigger point here...
So MrOli is having a MFD threeway, in the dogs bed while Juan Quar's missus drinks out of the dog bowel? You net nerds, when you go you really GO!
(Moominator missing the good stuff cos' the swear filter is on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 17:24, closed)

You're not paying attention
HE, i.e. Oli, has threesomes in Fido's bed and drinks from his bowl.

Only if he asks me nicely, though.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Fri 9 Apr 2010, 19:26, closed)