META: Why the babyspeak?

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Why do some people occasionally post to ILM using babyspeak ("i fink I wuv The Pixies")? Is this some reference I don't understand? Is it supposed to be funny or charming? I'm totally dumfounded here, help me out.

Mark, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i don wike weading deez ewmah fudd posts...but maybe I would if you could expwain dem to me.

Mark, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tom and Pete are infantilists who take turns dribbling over mark s's romper suit.

N., Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i fink U should ask STARRY SARAH !

DJ Martian, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Sorry if my question was a little asshole-ish, I really am just curious if there is something about these posts I don't "get." Thanks & have a nice evening.

Mark, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Didn't think your question was assholish at all. And it's a good question, too. My only response is: well, if babyspeak was never used, then perhaps the otherwise cold, drab looking protocol would seem less frivolous? less fun?

I don't really see the babyspeak as a separate thing of its own, though. I see the more colorful way to pepper one's comments an as entire phenomenon -- with thanks to the freedom to post in HTML -- and the babyspeak is just one variant of that.

Brian MacDonald, Monday, 7 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hoi! Dastoor, I only ever use the word wuv sparingly (and it does have a defined seperate meaning of like but wouldn't go to bed with). Babyspeak is not what I do. That said, style is style (but don't mistake Babyspeak for Molesworthisms).

Pete, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

What Pete said. "Fink" is a cod-Molesworthism, "wuv" is a word which has evolved because "love" is overused.

Tom, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

fink = violet elizabeth bott weally

as to why: er, it became necessary, to soften the pitiless intellectual rigour

mark s, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Oi. I don't say "fink". I will say SUMMINK though. Wuv is explained above and I never coined it originally. I'm not sure if Mark is saying I talk in 'babyspeak' but I'd certainly frown on that. Perhaps Marks slightly academic prose needs a few more CAPITALS in there!

Sarah, Tuesday, 8 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six years pass...

Hey DJJJJ!!

Tonight to the stars
Tonight I'm seein' stars (3x)

Once again, I find myself wit my friends, dancin' the night away
It's like the party neva ends
Then again we don’t want it to stop, 'cuz tonight’s the night
It goes
Sweatbox, laser beams, flashin lights, wild cards
Men from Mars, dressed in Stars and stripes
Eclectic electric
Ladies of the evenin'
drinkin' booze and minglin'..

Mashin' to the music, I can do anything
Freaky dicky star speckles and pink butterflies
And life is nice, so nice
I walk into a club and I’ve found paradise
I’m seein' stars, I can’t believe my eyes
I'm seein' stars

Chorus:

Oh my starry eyed surprise, sundown to sunrise
I dance all night, we gonna dance all night, dance all night to this DJ
Ah Sugar, dance all night to this DJ
Oh my starry eyed surprise, sundown to sunrise
Dance all night, we gonna dance all night, dance all night to this DJ
Ah Sugar, dance all night to this DJ, dance all night to this DJ, luvva Dance
all night to this DJ

Like the record always spins on the trails we blaze
The walls are closin' in but that’s ok 'cuz I’ve been waitin' all week to
Feel this way and it feels so good, so good
I’m on top of the world the coolest kid in the neighborhood
So let me be your star for one night that’s right
Sweatbox, laser beams, flashin' lights, you’ve got to feel the rush, feel The
spice of life
Love-life, Shifty rolls the dice snake eyes surprise
Icein'..Mesmerizin' the minds are sick ones 'cuz what we are, is victims Of fun
Come on, come on, the fun is just begun; come on the fun is just begun. Ha Ha!!

Repeat Chorus

Hey DJJJJ!

Whispered:

Tonight to the stars
Tonight I'm seein' stars (3x)

It goes
Oooh la la
I see stars
I’m seein' stars (2x)

Repeat Chorus til end

Dom Passantino, Saturday, 23 February 2008 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link

chiz chiz

DG, Saturday, 23 February 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link

cheez whiz...

snoball, Saturday, 23 February 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link


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