When we say babies do this and that even "before they learn to talk," we're obviously not including baby talk and other language smarts.
They begin to be treated like children, patronized with baby talk or avoided.
My nephew Diaper Dialed me last night. I picked up the phone and all I heard was baby talk.
In it twin baby boys standing next to a refrigerator are speaking to each other in baby talk and seem to understand exactly what is being said - it's a mixture of adorable and incredible.
Speech impediments are one thing, but baby talk in an attempt to be adorable should stop entirely.
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