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I have a three year old son who is cute as a button.

Ever since he started talking he's been saying 'La' instead of 'Yes' and everyone thinks it's so cute that we rarely correct him. Around the house we all started saying it as well as a sort of BinDipper family in-joke.

According to my colleague I said it four times in front of one of our key clients in a meeting last week.

Try it, it's fun!
(BinDipper, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:44, 11 replies)

Isn't that cantonese?
or mandarin, or whatever. Whatever it is they speak in Hong Kong.
(leviticus no longer likes the cut of your gib on, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:48, closed)

Nah, it's Scouse, hey, la?

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:51, closed)

No idea but would be cool to know.

We have no links to the far east in my family that I know of.
(BinDipper, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 16:52, closed)

it's not a different language
it's also not cute. it's stupid.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 17:14, closed)

No, it's cute
retarded kids usually are.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 17:16, closed)

That's arabic for 'no'.
So there.
(pissflaps. FSPW, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 20:08, closed)

Ya salaam - inta shatir!
( Vambo, Mon 25 Jul 2011, 20:44, closed)

It's so cute when adults use baby language.
"Ickle" instead of "little", for example, or referring to going to the "hospickoo" instead of "hospital".

It's even better when grown women do it in order to try and encourage their boyfriend to get them something they want "Baybee ... can 'oo get me anuvver ickle gwarth of wiiine?"
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 9:01, closed)

Gwarth? Wiine?
SCHWING!
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 9:38, closed)

As in "I'm firsty", from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 11:06, closed)

oh god......
my ex did that very frequently. Disturbing.
(Deligrams, Tue 26 Jul 2011, 15:10, closed)