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Ok … if you had to choose to live in a world where:

A: people ONLY ever talked baby talk

Or

B: people ONLY ever talked like pirates


Which would you choose?



Bonus points for giving your best voca impression of your chosen world.
 
You know... sometimes I tell my wife about the conversations I have on Lit. And she assumes I'm just hounding people for upskirts and downshirts all the time. But in reality, it's just stuff like this. Why do some people say "the 101" instead of just "101"?

I think I'm using this website wrong.
Honestly though me too....
 
Ok … if you had to choose to live in a world where:

A: people ONLY ever talked baby talk

Or

B: people ONLY ever talked like pirates


Which would you choose?



Bonus points for giving your best voca impression of your chosen world.
I'm in the office right now, so I can't do a pirate impression, but I'm saying pirate all the way.
Mostly because they probably didn't speak all that differently from the general population.
But also because I like wenches, and if I were to talk about wenches in baby talk I'd creep myself out.
 
I'm in the office right now, so I can't do a pirate impression, but I'm saying pirate all the way.
Mostly because they probably didn't speak all that differently from the general population.
But also because I like wenches, and if I were to talk about wenches in baby talk I'd creep myself out.
I LOVED when the pirate song was a trend on tiktok and my FYP was inundated with a plethora of pirate wench outfits.
 
Now, the book answer to all of this from Linguistics class (20 years ago), is that Californians tend to add "the" because a lot of their highway numbers are shortened versions of different types of highways. So you had "the 305 interchange" or "the 112 bypass" or something to that effect. And those simply got shortened to "the 305" or "the 112" or what have you. On the East coast we don't tend to name our highways like that. A bypass might exist for a temporary time, but not as a permanent roadway. Or if it was permanent, it would just take on the name of the old road. Like, we have "York Road," and "Old York Road," "Brandywine Road" and "Old Brandywine Road," where the "Old" roads were the originals and bypasses or newer routes were built, but then just adopted the previous road name. But there's not much that sticks around long enough for us to shorten any road names but keep the "the."
Because I’m a special form of nerd … I watched a whole video on highway naming and I’m gonna share it with yall cuz maybe that might explain some of it

 
Ok … if you had to choose to live in a world where:

A: people ONLY ever talked baby talk

Or

B: people ONLY ever talked like pirates


Which would you choose?



Bonus points for giving your best voca impression of your chosen world.
And ... we are back to the amazingly silly.

Pirates, obviously. https://voca.ro/1fTQzreREblP

Not real pirates, movie pirates.
 
Ok … if you had to choose to live in a world where:

A: people ONLY ever talked baby talk

Or

B: people ONLY ever talked like pirates


Which would you choose?



Bonus points for giving your best voca impression of your chosen world.
Oh, B in a heartbeat. All I can think about is someone being cut off in rush hour traffic and the victim sticking their head out the window and screaming: “Bloody pirates!”
 
Ok … if you had to choose to live in a world where:

A: people ONLY ever talked baby talk

Or

B: people ONLY ever talked like pirates


Which would you choose?



Bonus points for giving your best voca impression of your chosen world.
(A) would be much easier with all the practice I've had talking to dogs. Yeah, I'm that guy.

But I'll vote (B) all day long please.
 
I don't know about that. I've never done a Vocaroo recording before and I'm afraid I'd mess it up.

Now I gotta go post in the What Have You Lied About Recently thread. BRB...
Just message it to me then. I need to hear it. I'll send you my baby voice.
 
Ok … if you had to choose to live in a world where:

A: people ONLY ever talked baby talk

Or

B: people ONLY ever talked like pirates


Which would you choose?



Bonus points for giving your best voca impression of your chosen world.
I’m going with B, a pirate’s life for me
 
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