Baby Talk and Monkey Talk

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Baby Talk

Review of Baby Talk: The Art of Communicating with Infants and Toddlers.

1993 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 1335-1335
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson ◽  
Pamela Ramser
Keyword(s):  
Infants And Toddlers ◽  
Baby Talk

COMMON GENDER NOUNS AS WORDS OF “BABY TALK”

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (78) ◽  
Author(s):  
O.V. Murachova ◽  
M.A. Yaschenko
Keyword(s):  
Baby Talk

Words and Music in the Absence of the Social: Hemingway, Salinger, Fitzgerald

Prospects ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 405-434
Author(s):  
Michael Nathaniel Shute
Keyword(s):  
Ernest Hemingway ◽  
Subordinate Clauses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Baby Talk ◽  
Dwight Macdonald ◽  
Farewell To Arms

I imagine, you imagine, we imagine. And they imagine. This process may not be as simple as it appears to be inviting.Dwight MacDonald once remarked wittily upon the good and the bad of Ernest Hemingway. He commented on the grace: “The short words, the declarative sentences, the repetition, the beautiful absence of subordinate clauses … It was a kind of inspired baby talk when he was going good”:And what if she should die? She won't die. People don't die in childbirth nowadays. That was what all husbands thought. Yes, but what if she should die? She won't die. She's just having a bad time. The initial labor is usually protracted. She's just having a bad time. The initial labor is usually protracted. She's only having a bad time. Afterwards we'd say what a bad time and Catherine would say it wasn't really so bad. But what if she should die? She can't die. Yes, but what if she should die? She can't I tell you. Don't be a fool. It's just a bad time. It's just nature giving her hell. It's only the first labor, which is almost always protracted. Yes, but what if she should die? She can't die. Why should she die? What reason is there for her to die? … But what if she should die? She won't. She's all right. But what if she should die? Hey, what about that? What if she should die?After this passage MacDonald cites another passage from A Farewell to Arms, one that he sees as having far less meaning.

What is a Grandmother? (Written by a 9-year-old)

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 404-404
Author(s):  
G. R. Riess
Keyword(s):  
Baby Talk

"A grandmother is a lady who has no children of her own, so she likes other people's little boys and girls. A grandfather is a man grandmother. Grandmas don't have to do anything except be there. They're old, so they shouldn't play hard or run. It is enough if they drive us to the market where the pretend horse is and have lots of dimes ready. Usually grandmas are fat, but not too fat to tie kids' shoes. They wear glasses and they can take their teeth out and gums off! They don't have to be smart ... only answer questions like why dogs chase cats and how come God isn't married? They don't talk Baby Talk like visitors do because it is hard to understand and when they read to us they don't skip words or mind if it is the same story over and over again. Everyone should try to have a Grandma especially if they don't have a television, because grandmothers are the only grownups who really ever seem to have any time for children!"

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