Babytalk....does this annoy anybody else?

Just as an aside, there have actually been psych studies that show that infants respond better and learn faster to "baby talk" (more high pitched, stringing out vowel sounds, muddled enunciation) than to regular speech!   So don't discount us squeaky voiced folks too quickly, lol.

Liesje

I don't talk to anyone in a baby voice - dogs, babies, kids....  I suppose it's how I was raised.  My parents pretty much talked to us like normal and we got reprimanded for whining or talking like a baby (once we were like 2 years old or so).  I do sometimes talk to Kenya in a slightly higher voice, like "hi sweetie!" but not baby voices.  Ugh.  If I'm talking to someone else's dog, I just talk to them in my normal voice, but calm, slow, and quiet.

Hey! Did we have the same parents??? Ha, jk.....my parenst were/are the same way though....I can remember getting punished (had to stay in my room, no TV) for saying "Na-huh" instead of "no" when my Dad asked me something, I was pretty young (1st grade maybe).

Yeah... my mother taught public speaking classes, so heaven help me if I neglected proper diction! "Uh uh," "yeah," "gotta," "hafta" - all of these were big no-nos in my house.

Doesn't mean I can't lift my voice pitch every now and then, though...  

I dislike baby talk to dogs mainly because it gets them excited very fast. I discourage visitors from using it upon entering my home because then my two dogs get the wiggles tails and all that love just starts flying and shaking everywhere. I ask my guests to please ignore the dogs upon greeting except maybe a head pat and loving can be doled out appropriratly after the initial hello.

I dont do baby talk at all, I sing to my dogs!

I do not use baby talk with any other peoples dogs either.

When I meet other dogs I speak in a soft soothing voice, not baby talk.....they don't know me, I don't know them and I move slowly. With my girls, however, it's another story. I have to say that almost always speak to them in some "variation" of my regular voice.  They respond in such a happy way when I speak to them that way. (Okay and yeah, my ex-boyfriend and I sometimes spoke "baby talk" to each other, although not often.)    I'm also guilty of coming in the door after being away and making a big to-do out of it!!! Can't help it....I'm so happy to see them and I love the "wiggle worm" effect it has on them where their whole bodies wiggle from head to toe, especially Layla!!  I know it makes them happy that I'm acknowledging them that way - it's like a puppy party when I walk in the door and I wouldn't have it any other way. Ga Ga Goo Goo!! 

Ok Ok GOSH you beat it out of me!  LOL sometimes when I've had a horrible day I'll come home and do a smalll happy voice. Rory and Primo are like my personal cheeleaders and sometimes I just need it, lol!

my friend did that with boomer when she first met him talked in baby talk made me want to scream its annoying. then she was talking about how her mom was getting s kitten and she wanted to name it keyo and she kept saying over and over in the baby talk "aww hes so cute baby keyo" and "im so exsited baby keyo is coming home soon hes so cute" all kinds of stuff finally i told her i dont mind her saying those things but if she said it all shrill again i was going to throw her out of my car. on top of that her exsitement annoyed me because she has a cat and the new kitten isnt even hers so she needs to back off and let her mom handle naming it and taking care of it.

when i talk to my animel or any animel i talk to them normally unless like where playing then i sound like a five yearold playing with a toy and stuff like i rawr and such lol or like ill throw his ninja bunny and tell him to go get it or ill play fight with the ninja bunny with him such as making the stuffed animel kick him or punch him its funny to watch me play with him

I don't really do the whole baby talk thing with animals/ babies. Not even when my son was a little baby. I wouldn't say it annoys me to see other people do it though. I find it kind of funny seeing older people talking baby talk to dogs, and admire them in a sense for being that secure to sound like that haha.

I'm not a big fan of baby talk either - I tried it a few times but it my voice ended up cracking and I felt silly.  It sounds like you ran into quite a character, I would have walked quickly away too!

 

Ok I admit, I babytalk to my dogs, but they are my babies. At work though, I don't babytalk to other people's dogs LOL. I'm sure they would look at me like I'm nuts, but I talk to those dogs normal. LOL, and I don't ask the dog his name or age like that lady did though, I ask the owner..haha.

Guilty! I don't talk baby talk to strangers dogs, or when I'm at work (work in a vet clinic, and I find it gets dogs wayyy too excited, and dogs do not need to be excited there!) but I do find myself baby talking to Sniper every once and a while. I usually talk to her normally, but every once and a while I do it just to make her go all silly and butt waggly! She loves it!   I have no problem with strangers talking baby talk to her either, she just melts for them when they do, but never jumps or gets out of control. "Whoos da' good Snipa' Diapa'? Are you mama's baby daawwg? Who wants to have a cookie? Youuu such a gooood gurlll." Yeah, she likes that! I know, I know...I can't help it!

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I baby talk. A lot. "Who's a pretty girl? Dat's MYYYYY pretty girl! OOOoo so pretty! Mushy mushy monkey mush." Yeah.... I do it to other dogs, too. I'm a groomer, for crying out loud. They ARE pretty when I'm done!!!

I talk to Pirate in LOLcats. 'I can haz ball plz?', 'Iz want fud?', 'Iz sleepin?'. One of my reward words is 'yessss-ah!' (Does anyone's kids watch Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends? Cheese always says 'yes-ah'!)

Oh I am SOOOO guilty of this on all counts, with my dog and with any sweet dog I might meet.  I don't know, I LOVE when someone seems to be able to connect with my dog and not care what other people think, I've never thought of it as rude when someone baby talks my dog at all.   I love seeing adults just letting loose like that. I've never thought about it being rude towards other dog owners though, maybe I should reserve it for inside the house when nobody is around lol!