Re: Conlang baby-talk

From: "Christophe Grandsire" <christophe.grandsire@...>

> > No, seriously:  I think the fact that French is spoken so far to
> > the front of the mouth, with lots of pouty rounded vowels (even
> > the schwa is rounded!) and palatised* consonants, makes Francophones
> > (esp. women (esp. Laetitia Casta <G>)) sound cute.
>
> Well, remember the term "gnangnan"? Laetitia Casta is probably the
archetype of
> its definition ;)))) (now I don't dislike her, especially since she comes
from
> the same neighbourhood as me ;)))) . But her "cutey-cutey" way of talking
can
> be annoying...).
I have a word made up, "nam-nam", which means "that shaming, condescending
way of talking the old lady at the DMV gives you about 'you must have
insurance', 'sorry you weren't ready for your pic', etc.". It's
onomatopoeic, sort of.