Hello!
We used to be very avid in use of “baby chat”. We have experience with it, but we chose to stop using it as it is commonly used because:
a.) Our regression age doesn’t correspond to an age where we use words (we only occasionally use babbles, lots of humming and varying use of mama).
b.) It doesn’t add any benefit to our own littlespace.
c.) It bothers us how a lot of people believe there are words that Littles use. Examples being chu, dwaddy, otay, wittle. Just try and listen to the actual way toddlers talk.
Anyway, we answered a similar topic a while back:
Does anyone else get annoyed by baby talk?
Here’s the more relevant part of that post to answer your question:
We tend to dislike plain baby chat, where R's and L's are replaced by W's but the user's full lexical is pretty much used. A baby's vocabulary should not be as broad. We also dislike when it is used in contexts other than roleplay, for example, to answer questions about more serious topics. Babies replace, mispronounce, forget, shorten or sometimes lengthen, even come up with words. From our experience, we have not seen many people employ these tactics to make the text feel genuine.
Our personal biases aside, we think that baby chat should be personal. It should be your own dictionary of words. It is organic, it lives! Our best advice is to listen in to how little kids talk. Try figuring out their sentence structure, their cute little mistakes and mispronounciations, the way they try and convey a message.
A few things we can mention off the top of our heads:
- Kids sometimes forget what they were talking about, mid-sentence, and their message derails.
“We were going to the park and then we saw a squirrel and the squirrel ran up a tree and then we watch TV and then and then...”
- Kids will sometimes reiterate their messages.
“We had lots of fun were playing with toys we like and we had games and we had lots of fun.”
- Kids will sometimes talk using incredibly long sentences with no pauses. Or sometimes pause in incorrect times.
- Younger kids shorten complex words, or shuffle syllables around.
- Kids will stop and try to butcher words they are trying to use but haven’t mastered yet.
Example: “am... amamaze... amazing!”
Try to keep an open mind and not be influenced so much by the littlespeak you see online from other people. Make it so that it is your very own littlespeak, genuine and coming from your little heart!