Dont Baby That Baby, Baby

Published: Sept. 26, 2014, 5:13 p.m.

Don\u2019t Baby That Baby, Baby; by Butch McBastard; From Volume CLXVIII, Number 2, of Speculative Grammarian, October 2013 \u2014 Despite the attempts by those who study the phenomenon to dress it up in jargon (\u201ccaretaker speech\u201d), cutesiness (\u201cmotherese\u201d), or TLAs (IDS/CDS\u2014\u201cinfant-/child-directed speech\u201d), baby talk is still baby talk, and frankly as a linguist I\u2019m insulted that you think I\u2019d fall for that kind of whitewashing of such a despicable practice. That\u2019s right, I said it, baby talk is despicable. (Read by Trey Jones.)