Thanks for this, it was fascinating, and like hellmutt said, explained a lot of stuff we didn't quite know how to articulate. Especially this part:
Now the reasons for this could be a zillion - overlapping adult consciousnesses, absorbing social/grammar/spelling rules on the net (kids are good at this - in fact that's how they absorb language), whatever. In a way Lilspeak is more like a pidgin language - a strange hybrid between how children "sound" inside and the adults hearing it. Functionally kids who use it have learned a new language.
which is similar to what some of us have speculated about lilspeak amongst ourselves. (Our kids don't actually use it, for the record, but then they very rarely speak to other plural kids at all.)
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Now the reasons for this could be a zillion - overlapping adult consciousnesses, absorbing social/grammar/spelling rules on the net (kids are good at this - in fact that's how they absorb language), whatever. In a way Lilspeak is more like a pidgin language - a strange hybrid between how children "sound" inside and the adults hearing it. Functionally kids who use it have learned a new language.
which is similar to what some of us have speculated about lilspeak amongst ourselves. (Our kids don't actually use it, for the record, but then they very rarely speak to other plural kids at all.)