Maybe it's always been this way and I never noticed, but ladies... can we call a truce to talking like 3-yr olds in a professional setting, hmmm?

Granted, all bets are off at a baby shower but listening to 2 30-40 yr old ladies acting cutsie "No, thank youuuuuu" is like nails on a chalkboard to me. I just listened to a voicemail left for me by my dentist's office and had to hear it 3 times before I realized it wasn't a call from one of my daughter's friends in the 2nd grade.

Can someone clue me in about this phenomenon? I can't be the only one that's noticed it...

I have no idea what you're talking about. Could you be a little more vague?

Oh diddums is the nice little man throwing his teddy out of his pram then?

Hmm, Potsie, apparently you ARE the only one who's noticed it....

And by the way, if people talking like 3-year olds to each other is so annoying to you, you may need to get some perspective on what is and is not annoying.

I don't know, Allan, I think it would be pretty maddenning if everyone in my office did that...

Yeah, I aggree with the OP. I've heard people talk like that and it is really damn annoying.

I'm all for a kinder, gentler nation.

---" I don't know, Allan, I think it would be pretty maddenning if everyone in my office did that..."---

Yea, nobody likes people talking over their head :)