kid speak.. not directed or attacking anyone, I just want to know about it.

I barely notice it in the rather mild form I see on the forums. But then, I've had exposure to many of the great works in English literature and one just gets used to reading dialects. The couple of times in-world where I've run into the more severe "baby talk" it has gotten on my nerves so I just ignore it.

EDIT: Now I'm considering developing some form of "picklespeak" for when I'm using my cucumber avatar....

I wasn't taking a shot at you, Phil. There have been a lot of threads where people really lashed out over it, like it was the beginning of the end of the English language. I just don't understand why some people get so worked up over something that really doesn't hurt them. But I wasn't directing that at you, and I wasn't trying to stop discussion; I was just stating my opinion on it.

I like Mari's speech patterns. They're easy to read, but enough different from normal adult "speech" to remind me that she's only five.

And like the OP, I'm not singling out Marianne individually, but using her as an illustration of ...well, kidspeak done right. IMO, of course.

I don't understand why anyone cares. If you don't like it, don't do it. If it REALLY gets on your nerves, don't read it or put the poster on mute. It's more annoying when someone posts something patently stupid or just mean-spirited than it is when someone uses kid-speak. In those situations, someone is trying to be hurtful to someone else and is trying to self-justify their assholery by claiming to be "blunt" or "straightforward". With the people who play kids, it's just a matter of them typing the way they have trained themselves to think - not a matter of trying to be intentionally aggravating.

Mari and the others bring a lot of good to the forums, and they do it with kindness and a sense of humor, which is a lot more than I can say for some other posters. If they drop the occasional "dun" or "tink", how bad is that on the grand scale of things?




BTW: If you don't like mispellings, avoid my posts. It's not kid-speak or leet-speak. it's just poor typing skills.

EDIT: Now I'm considering developing some form of "picklespeak" for when I'm using my cucumber avatar....

Ok this post is not directed at anyone, before people think I am.

I saw in marianne's thread where someone told her to speak normal and not use the "kid" chat.

which lead me to this question (and I made a new thread because I did not want to hijack her's)

(and I want to say I am not attacking anyone or directing this at anyone, I only mentioned Marianne because it was her someone else commented to about this subject, and hopefully she can give me and all of us some insight into rping a kid)

Why do folks use the "kid" speak when RPing a kid?
I sorta get it when the kid is maybe 2 or 3 and just learning to talk, but older kids, say 5+ usually speak as clearly as any (better than some) adults.
Unless they have a speech impediment they should be speaking just like anyone else.

I see it happen with a lot of kid avatars and still just do not understand why. (when I was exploring the grid as a kid, (AKA A grid kid) I did not type dis or dat or tink etc, I spoke like I do as an adult. (with typos LOL)

so,... why do folks use that form of chat when they can type normally and still be a kid?

(I am heading out to a friends place, so will not be back for a few hours, I will check in later for some insight)

Thanks for understand I am not attacking anyone, or putting anyone down, I just am curious as to the why.

You guys are lucky. I limit myself to a smiley for each paragraph. Inworld, it's per chatline. (^_^)y

Jes make sure to keep kosher!

...an great post, Mister Shang!

YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary.

Aunt Polly -- Tom's Aunt Polly, she is -- and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece -- all gold.

It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round -- more than a body could tell what to do with.

The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.

I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable.

So I went back.

* * * * *

Serious concepts, youthful delivery.

Not for everyone, to be sure, and that's a crying shame.

(and I want to say I am not attacking anyone or directing this at anyone, I only mentioned Marianne because it was her someone else commented to about this subject, and hopefully she can give me and all of us some insight into rping a kid)

I suppose the question could evolve into, "Why would anyone communicate with others outside of their own personal social groups in any way other than clear, concise speech?"
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Ooo..bibble-wibble...eck...waaaaahhhh!

I'm practicing baby speak.

Also, do kitties do kitty speak? Meow prrr go prrr scrrratch meowcushion!

Dw'i'n dynes Saesneg, ond dw'i'n hoffi areithio yr iaith Cymraeg in SL ambell waith!!!

Dw'i'n dynes Saesneg, ond dw'i'n hoffi areithio yr iaith Cymraeg in SL ambell waith!!!