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Linda
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Post subject: Superbaby  Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:39 pm |
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Do you know of any toddlers who actually speak like this? Mine didn't. My friends' kids didn't either. 
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 4:49 pm |
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I have a 4 year old and she has always said "I"...not "me"....I know that for sure now whenever a Barbie commercial comes on..."I WANT THAT!!!"
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:00 pm |
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Me think that is just silly!
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 5:01 pm |
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When my daughter was two or three she said ME want this/that, which surpirsed me because it did sound like superbaby.
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Gator
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 6:03 pm |
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Sure, babies talked like that around the same time teenagers talked like this... 
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Kevin
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:16 pm |
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I remember that Elliot Maggin "explained" this phenomenon in his first Superman novel, LAST SON OF KRYPTON. He said that even though Clark was absolutely brilliant, even as a two-year-old, he had an utter disdain for grammar and so spoke how he wanted.
And the answer is no. None of my kids ever spoke like that. 
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Allen Berrebbi
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:06 pm |
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Almost as accurate as the hip black speak of those days.
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:15 pm |
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Wasn't Superbaby actually the spawn of the Bizarro and Bizarro-Lois? I remember that story from Superman From the 30's to the 70's, and the kid is talking like, the Bizarro jive man.
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Houston Mitchell
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 10:08 pm |
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Me toddler Hannah (her 3) not speak like that. Hannah rarely wear cape when outside of house. Just wear it inside.
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:13 am |
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Interesting. That's 3 comics variants of English identified in this thread:
Babyspeak
Bizarrospeak
Hopelesslyunhipteenspeak
Anyone come up with any others?
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Linda
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 3:41 pm |
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 3:57 pm |
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Hugh
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Post subject: Superbaby Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 10:46 pm |
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Niatpac Levram!!!!!!
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Believe it or not, I know an adult that talks like this...whenever he's talking to someone who doesn't speak English very well.
A few times we've encountered people that, for whatever reason, didn't speak much English. So in his attempts to explain something to them as simply as possible, he would adopt this "baby/Hulk?indian-from-a-cheesy-western" type of language.
In telling the person how to get to the train station you'd get something like:
"Me help get you to train station. You go 5 mile...FIVE MILES...that way. Right turn at end of road, blue sign. What time train leave for you? You not make train...Me drive you station, get train." Imagine all of the hand gestures and vocal inflections, and you'll see why I was around the corner holding my sides aas tears rushed down my face, trying not to just fall on the ground laughing.
I guess it comes from the same train (HAR!) of thought that "If they don't speak English, talk REALLY loud at them!".
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