Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 14:11:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: iesk <pa.fae@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [lojban] Lojban: it's not for babies.
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lojbab:
>The corresponding lojban baby-talk name
>might be "dib." or plausibly "dir.", or
>hearkening back to Cinderelwood, "paf."=20

=E2=80=A6 each containing a consonant cluster, and (possibly, in a global=
=20
perspective) a relatively weird one: /dib=CA=94/, /dir=CA=94/, /paf=CA=94/.=
 >:->=20
(Although, admittedly, the grammar allows for eliding the /=CA=94/ at the e=
nd of=20
the speech stream.)

While babies=E2=80=99 (in)competence to enunciate consonant clusters is pro=
bably=20
the same all over the globe, languages=E2=80=99 phonologies are not. So, I =
guess=20
Tahitian baby talk will sound more or less like =E2=80=98real=E2=80=99 Tahi=
tian before=20
Nux=C3=A1lk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nux%C3%A1lk_language#Syllables =
=E2=80=A6 wtf)=20
baby talk sounds like =E2=80=98real=E2=80=99 Nux=C3=A1lk.

I=E2=80=99m not sure how much that has to do with language preference in bi=
lingual=20
households.

-iesk

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<div dir=3D"ltr">lojbab:<br>&gt;The corresponding lojban baby-talk name<br>=
&gt;might be "dib." or plausibly "dir.", or<br>&gt;hearkening back to Cinde=
relwood, "paf." <br><br>=E2=80=A6 each containing a consonant cluster, and =
(possibly, in a global perspective) a relatively weird one: /dib=CA=94/, /d=
ir=CA=94/, /paf=CA=94/. &gt;:-&gt; (Although, admittedly, the grammar allow=
s for eliding the /=CA=94/ at the end of the speech stream.)<br><br>While b=
abies=E2=80=99 (in)competence to enunciate consonant clusters is probably t=
he same all over the globe, languages=E2=80=99 phonologies are not. So, I g=
uess Tahitian baby talk will sound more or less like =E2=80=98real=E2=80=99=
 Tahitian before Nux=C3=A1lk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nux%C3%A1lk_lang=
uage#Syllables =E2=80=A6 wtf) baby talk sounds like =E2=80=98real=E2=80=99 =
Nux=C3=A1lk.<br><br>I=E2=80=99m not sure how much that has to do with langu=
age preference in bilingual households.<br><br>-iesk</div>

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