Re: Conlang baby-talk

En réponse à Christian Thalmann <cinga@...>:

>
> Probably cause she's a babe.  I find it quite endearing.  =D
>
Macho! ;)))

> Surely you wouldn't find it that annoying if a cute *guy* talked that
> way?
I would probably find it worse! ;))

  Or are you into machos?  ;-)
>
Not either. I prefer the middle ground ;)))) , neither too much, nor too little.

>
> Then you haven't seen "Le fabuleux destin d'Amelie" (sorry, no
> accents on this freaking Unix keyboard...).
Yes I saw it.

  They pronounce "Lady Di"
> as [led_ji'd_ji], bordering on [ledz_ji'dz_ji].
>
Who is "they"? Because I remember the movie quite well, and *only* Jamel
Debbouze, who played Lucien, had this pronunciation. But with him it's meant as
a comical effect which is always present in his own idiolect (he is a comic,
and the main part of his humour is this strange absolutely found nowhere else
accent).

> Also, I remember the cutie-cute Aurelie from my language studies in
> California, who spoke le plus gnangnamment possible, and used to add
> a voiceless palatal fricative release after stressed final i's.  For
> instance, her name would be something like [ore'liC].  ;-)
>
That, on the other hand, is common in girlish talk. My sister had it too. In
cliche "salope" talk, the [C] becomes a full blown [S] ;)) .

>
> I'll try to record some samples of my "gare" when I get home.
>
I'm eager to hear them. I find this thing about palatalised consonants quite
strange. I never heard it in my life except in extreme situations, having
nothing to do with common use (like I explained) so I'd really like to
understand what foreigners find "palatalised" here.

Christophe.

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