For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for March 17, 2024

Cute. Don’t remember this one.

“Oddnoxious” Ima haffa amember dat wun! XD

That woman has a dozen cats she talks baby talk to at home.

Go on, April—knock her dentures down her throat!!

April has learned to look down her nose on other people. She is becoming a Patterson and Elly is so proud of her!

Wouldn’t surprise me if strangers photographed April and her little shopping cart and then posted it on FB. Or sold it to AMERICA’S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS.

When you are older than you look…

She isn’t wrong and that word should totally exist.

While I do consider it only polite to speak to someone in their own language (assuming I know their language), “baby talk” is not a toddler’s language. Their language is their best effort at copying adults’ language. If an adult tries to talk to them using “baby talk”, it only confuses the kid, and likely insults them. I promised myself early on to never use “baby talk” when speaking to children—they are apprentice adults, and I try to keep that in mind.

I recall being eye level to lit cigarettes in people’s hands at various gatherings. In the 40s and 50s everybody smoked. As a little kid I learned to be careful. And why did they all need to mess my hair up?!

Jez I talg, my nave is Awril.

From Lynn’s Comments: When I was a little kid, I could never warm up to grown-ups who talked in baby-talk. I thought they were, well…insulting!

Even your pets think you’re annoying when you do that!

April should talk

Not a good idea to approach other people’s little kids and start talking to them. Years ago, that was OK, but by the 90s… Not so much.

Here’s a good reason to keep the phone number of the closest insane asylum handy, so you can alert the guys in the white coats to come and take this weirdo [in need of help] away!

Would have sworn it was one of those people.

Always hated it when adults did that when I was that age. I swore to always talk to kids normally, and to this day, I do. Even babies won’t get “baby talk” from me. Besides, getting in your face like that is annoying, and to someone that size, rather intimidating! Let’s get some Oat Zaps, they’re 100% nutrition free.

A lot of obnoxious people think they’re cute.

I don’t think she mispronounced the word. I think she made her own word from two others, odd + obnoxious = oddnoxious

Out of the mouths of babes…

Well we teach our kids not to talk to strangers, and she sure was strange !

April…. she might end up the smartest one of the bunch…

The person using the “baby talk” made a real fool of themselves. Thank goodness April kept her mouth shut then.

Stranger danger!

100% Nutrition Free Oat Zaps made from 100% inorganic high fructose corn syrup, non-non-GMO’s and some left over “cellulose fiber” they put in the cans of sprinkle cheese

I go to one market that has the little carter and “LEARNER” flag on it, LOL!! I don’t approach kids either, as a guy, it is not a good thing to do.

That’s what Elly would be like if she had no kids!

The look on Ellie’s face, when April suddely spouts an almost perfect sentence, is priceless.

Got that right

April, you missed your big chance to push that cart into the nosey strange ladies shines.

This is how Maurice Sendak claimed to come up with the Wild Things.

Smartest thing Aypo has said so far…..

“Durl” …?? This woman should be recorded and forced to listen to herself. Then maybe she would realize how stupid this sounds.

There are adults who think it’s “cute” or “clever” to use baby-talk. Like those who refer to sandwiches as “sammiches.” It isn’t funny; it’s childish and lazy speech. And it makes them look uneducated.

What is wrong with that creepy woman?

Call 911 I think she’s having a stroke

WWW.cdc.GOV/stroke/signs_symptoms.HTM

creepy!

Patronizing old coot!

Yes, they are, April!

I remember a strip where Elly was wondering why Elizabeth was using so much baby language, and then starts “babytalking” to her.

Least she’s green for St Paddy’s…

Quite oddnoxious indeed, April, emphasis on the “noxious”!

April is a little old for baby talk…

April knew exactly how to handle this oddnoxious lady. Ignore her until she goes away. ;-)

“Was that you or the duck? Because if it was you I’m gonna finish this ride with the duck!”

Groucho Marx—HORSE FEATHERS—-1932

If you have one of these in your family, they’re the ones the kids climb a tree in the backyard to avoid.