Sometimes I wonder if things like the hexbear bouncing cat emotes are a bit twee and cringe, but then I see the aesthetics the other side has run with…
I’m not trying to :very-intelligent: but I did get a kick out of this take being associated with your username
counterpoint: having nonverbal means of communicating or emphasizing an idea makes it easier for that idea to get across. Expanding on this, using cats or dogs or other animals to convey expressions or emotions is inherently less exclusionary than using a person, since the animal (or even inanimate object) does not belong to a specific race, gender, class, or presentation
There’s no need to be so joyless that you purge everything colorful and cute from your life because, uh, communism or whatever.
So :meow-bounce: is bad because it’s blobby and blobs are for children, but :party-cat: is fine because it’s not blobby?
Genuinely don’t understand the problem with things being stylized
I think neurotypicals are super weird about how you’re not allowed to keep liking certain things because you’ve aged, so if that’s what you mean by fucked concepts of adulthood im right there with you, but from what I understand you’re actually in favor of taking those arbitrary social rules that exist to shame people for harmless things that bring them job to even further extremes…?
There’s no need to be so joyless that you purge everything colorful and cute from your life because, uh, communism or whatever.
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for example, ‘baby talk’ hinders the development of language in infants, whereas talking to even newborns in complete and grammatically correct sentences will assist in language learning.
this is extremely not true. part of the evolution of languages is the tendency for infantalized language to become the norm for discourse over a few generations. as the new linguistic forms become normal, new infantalized language is introduced and the cycle repeats. simplifying the language for children is one of the primary drivers of linguistic evolution.
Certainly would explain a lot of things about me. I’m not very smart but I’m generally pretty articulate and a little verbose, and I have been since I was little. My parents tell me (since I mostly don’t remember being that young) that they made an effort to mostly talk to me like a person, though it’s not like they never baby-talked me.
I think baby talk has some legitimate uses, like for consoling a little kid who is too upset to be able to focus on longer or more complex statements, but in general it makes sense to me that it would kneecap development.