Why Don't Babies Talk Like Adults?(scientificamerican.com)

11 pointsby amichail17 anni fa8 comments

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-dont-babies-talk

6 comments

"This E*Trade commercial is only the latest proof of what comedians and movie directors have known for years: few things are as funny as a baby who talks like an adult ..."

Well, let's not carried away. It's cute in small dosages.

EDIT: Just came across this:

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izcs17 anni fa

this article was adapted from free blogs and u have to pay to read all of it? seriously?

jaytee_clone17 anni fa

"Why don't adults talk like babies?" would be a more insightful question in my opinion.

weeksie17 anni fa

Because they're stupid babies.

xenophanes17 anni fa

Hate moar?

wglb17 anni fa

My experience raising two children is that adults often talk to babies with babytalk. we talked to our babies with adult language and they didn't really use babytalk.

shrikant17 anni fa

So, uh, practice makes perfect, and babies just haven't been around in the world long enough?

anamax17 anni fa

Market segmentation.