# Girls talking in baby voices. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 1, 2007, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-talking-in-baby-voices/410131 "2007-07-01T17:23:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-talking-in-baby-voices/410131/81 "2007-07-10T14:37:10Z")
[QUOTE=Sleel] I find affected high voices to be annoying. It’s quite common here, as is baby talk. [Hamasaki Ayumi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayumi_Hamasaki), for example, has the vocal mannerisms of a five year old. Blech! [/QUOTE] Do you know of an example of her speaking voice online? All I could find was [this](http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=6LvM67yw6Ys) where she only speaks for a couple of seconds. Her voice there sounds normal–in fact, I’d say a little low for a Japanese female’s public conversational voice–but you’ve probably heard her speak for longer intervals. > [@](#): > > A girl with a naturally high voice who tries to go for a more throaty, husky voice, on the other hand \ I’ve told my wife before that it turns me on when she gets a sore throat. 🙂 For some reason she doesn’t appreciate this. -FrL- > [@](#): > > I want to drag home and ravish animal-style. Umm… you want to put chili and thousand island dressing on her? ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-talking-in-baby-voices/410131/82 "2007-07-10T15:38:45Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Umm… you want to put chili and thousand island dressing on her? [/QUOTE] Explain please. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-talking-in-baby-voices/410131/83 "2007-07-10T15:49:54Z")
[QUOTE=Swallowed My Cellphone] Explain please. 😕 [/QUOTE] Heh, I have to apologize for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I forgot the reference is obscure. For another thing, [I didn’t even get it right](http://www.in-n-out.com/secretmenu.asp). :smack: (Lower right hand corner if you don’t see it.) -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-talking-in-baby-voices/410131/84 "2007-07-10T15:52:46Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Heh, I have to apologize for a couple of reasons. For one thing, I forgot the reference is obscure. For another thing, [I didn’t even get it right](http://www.in-n-out.com/secretmenu.asp). :smack: [/QUOTE] Oooooh. Yeah, they don’t have that restaurant around these parts. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2007, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-talking-in-baby-voices/410131/85 "2007-07-10T22:37:44Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Do you know of an example of her speaking voice online? All I could find was [this](http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=6LvM67yw6Ys) where she only speaks for a couple of seconds. Her voice there sounds normal–in fact, I’d say a little low for a Japanese female’s public conversational voice–but you’ve probably heard her speak for longer intervals. [/QUOTE] I can verify what **Sleel** said. Ayumi’s voice is … unique. Except I wouldn’t so much call it “little girlish” as “bizarre”. She really sounds like she’s talking completely through her nose. There used to be a clip on YouTube where the singing group Mini Moni was on Ayumi’s TV show, and you could really hear a lot of her voice there. There was also a clip of Mari Yaguchi, from Morning Musume doing an uncannily accurate impression of Ayumi, but I can’t find that one, either. For more Japanese girly voice fun, you can’t beat my favorite, aiko. Of course, aiko is 5 feet tall and built like the proverbial 12-year-old boy, so she has an excuse. And she writes great songs 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-talking-in-baby-voices/410131/86 "2007-07-11T02:52:53Z")
[QUOTE=Frylock] Do you know of an example of her speaking voice online? All I could find was [this](http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=6LvM67yw6Ys) where she only speaks for a couple of seconds. Her voice there sounds normal–in fact, I’d say a little low for a Japanese female’s public conversational voice–but you’ve probably heard her speak for longer intervals. [/QUOTE] We’ve been discussing two separate issues as if they were the same thing. 1) Voice quality. 2) Baby-talk (i.e. Pwecious Pwincess). Hamasaki Ayumi doesn’t have a particularly high voice. She actually uses a lower register than most girly girls in Japan, though she tends to talk through her nose even more than most Tokyo-area women. I was actually talking about her way of speaking: mannerisms, choice of words, speech patterns. When she says something like あゆは、さ、ちょう嬉しいわね！It makes her sound like she’s about five and/or extremely ditzy. She’s actually not dumb, but she sure as hell sounds like she is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/girls-talking-in-baby-voices/410131.md?page=4)