This troper's parents occasionally talked to my brother and I like this, but according to my dad, it was a very rare occurrence. Nowadays, whenever my mom sees somebody with a cute baby, she immediately slips into this way of speaking. She could be giving a dissertation on nuclear physics, but the moment she saw a baby, her vocabulary would change.

Adverted by this tropers parents. From day 1 they talked to me like they would a normal human being. In the end, it made me have a grandiose vocabulary. Also, it made it so I was reading at a high school level... in Third Grade.

Same troper, my family follows it to the letter for our cats and one of our dogs (the dog is cat sized and snuggles.... alot).

This troper too. Our grandmothers were rather annoyed that Mom wouldn't allow them to talk baby-talk to us. Turned out to be a good thing though since my middle brother and I have both been hearing impaired since the age of three, so we had enough trouble learning to speak english as it was with everyone talking normally to us. Although there was a rather bizzare incident with our oldest brother (who hears normally) and our maternal grandmother where she was talking choo-choo trains, while he was sitting in his high chair talking about the differenced between different train companies.

And same here. In fact, there's an old family story my mom tells about talking to baby me in a bouncy seat on the counter while making dinner, and suddenly realizing what she had just said was something to the effect of "...and they had to face the ramifications of their actions." I did grow up to win a state vocab competition... maybe that had something to do with it.

This troper and her sister as well... interesting. Although we all speak in baby talk to our cats. We figure that they do the same to us.

This troper does this when greeting pretty much any dog she comes in contact with, be they little fluffy lapdogs, enormous buff dogs, or anything in between. If it's close enough to be patted and offered a hand to sniff, it'll be baby-talked at.

Huh, y'know I don't remember ever typing this...

For this troper, BabyTalk is the MostAnnoyingSound and that's a ''mild'' way of putting it. It's like nails on a chalkboard. It is absolutely ''painful'' to hear (although not in the sense of a pain in my actual ears, more in an abstract sense); I don't know why it has such a negative effect on me, but it's like the audio equivalent of firing a nailgun into my skull or sticking red-hot needles under my fingernails. I, myself, talk to pets and children more or less the same way I'd talk to a human adult, although if I get a "huh?" back from the kid in question then I'll say it again in the same tone but simpler words.

This trouper has seen the rather sad results of baby talk being the sole form of communication between a young child and their parents, one of my friends little brothers can only speak in the annoying tone of baby-talk. He is pushing the 2nd grade and he is still not capable of speaking like a normal human being. It is rather depressing to behold.

It's either the above reason or the fact that she can't stand small children who can't hold a decent conversation that this troper absolutely hates people baby-talking to kids (she herself normally refuses to talk to them at all, but if she needs to, it's always in a mature tone). Then she plays the trope totally straight when confronted with small, fluffy animals or a BigFriendlyDog.

Oddly toyed with in the cases of this troper and her brothers. Our parents never spoke in baby talk with the belief that childhood was a waste of time and that the sooner we grew up, the better. (They did a lot more serious things to deprive us of being kids, as well.) My brothers, my half-sister, and yours truly all grew up to be rather youthful adult children in varying forms. What's more, my brothers and I are paraphilic infantilists who enjoy being "babied" by our spouses. By the way, I have actual babies of my own. My husband and I are giving them normal babyhoods.

My grade 7 teacher told us the only reason she got a dog was to annoy her oldest daughter with baby-talk.

This troper's neuro and pediatrics teacher in graduate school. Perfectly reasonable lady who immediately started gibbering in baby talk when we had babies in the peds lab.

This troper can resist the urge with human infants and dogs, but the moment she sees a cat? BabyTalk for the kitty. Bear in mind that this troper actually has a college-level vocabulary and could be giving a dissertation on Jungian collective unconscious, but the moment she sees a kitty the baby talk flies..

This troper used to talk this way to her cats, although she's tried to stop. This troper's mother does it to troper and cats and it is irritating as ''hell''.

My little brother pretends to be a baby sometimes, and talks in the most annoying baby talk ever, which everyone else in the family finds adorable. It is the most annoying thing ever!

Wittle kitties and babies awe so ke-ute! Aren't you just so ke-ute? Yes, you awe! Yes, you awe! A gootchie, gootchie!

My mom talks like this to our pet. Thing is, that pet's a six-and-a-half-year-old goldfish. Whenever she does it in front of me and/or my sister, it instantly elicits eyerolls from us.

I don't really see the problem with that...

This tropette talks in baby talk to every adorable thing... except actual babies. Voice is slightly higher, more gentle, sentences are simpler but still grammatically correct, but I can't bring myself to go all oogy-snoogy-babums-talky to a human being. It's weird.