- 7 years ago
#33563
## Baby chat (text)
We used to write with baby chat a lot, especially with our roleplay caregivers. It was fun. We got good at it.
It posed a challenge to them to try and decipher what we wanted. Online communications occur without many of the challenges between real life parents, caretakers (not CGs) and babies (not Littles). Although baby chat will never be as organic as real baby and toddler talk, it eludes to the idea that someone has the need to be small as to try and go a bit further with the type of online communication carried out.
That is not completely a valid reason to go out of our way and pose challenges to other people, but in a way it felt nice when we get to develop out own language with others. We had the security of others caring enough about us as to try and understand a whacky way of typing.
We currently do not type in baby chat at all because we have no need for it. We do not feel at all like we have to behave a certain way (outside of the way we naturally behave) to feel fulfilled with our online relationships.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but also, baby chat has grades and quality. We tend to dislike plain baby chat, where R's and L's are replaced by W's but the user's full lexical is pretty much used. A baby's vocabulary should not be as broad. We also dislike when it is used in contexts other than roleplay, for example, to answer questions about more serious topics. Babies replace, mispronounce, forget, shorten or sometimes lengthen, even come up with words. From our experience, we have not seen many people employ these tactics to make the text feel genuine.
## Baby talk (voice)
We have used and continue to practice and use baby talk and our baby voices when we have the chance to, for example, calls with our Little friends. We purposely make our vices higher pitched, stutter, shorten words, mix sentences up, speak in questioning tone, slur and hum a lot. We believe that we are growing a natural baby voice. We would like for more people to hear and judge us to see just how good we have gotten to be.
Anyway, baby talk is more meaningful to us than baby chat. It is a step closer to reality, as babies cannot type, yet they can really talk. It is also more genuine, as speech occurs on the spot, with little to no time to think about the delivery of the message.
Although we under that we will never ever have natural baby voices again, we have gotten to the point where we believe (not necessarily that is a reality) our voices can almost blend in with real toddlers' voices, and that our manner of speech is pretty close to being genuine. Of course, we would never ever use our baby voices with minors, but we believe that it is nice to give our Mommy another reason to believe in our true inner selves.
On a side note, does barely being vocal count as baby talk, or lack of? Haha.
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