Interesting Links for 17-01-2022
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andrewducker- Life-size LEGO Andúril sword (3rd pic: Shards of Narsil)
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- What's going on with children and Omicron?
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- An Injection of Chaos Solves Decades-Old Fluid Mystery
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- Labour unveils 10-point plan for living with Covid-19
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- Inside Dubai: What was the BBC thinking?
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- When people said they wanted to play Doom on their phone I don't think this is what they meant
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- Why Macron's Use of the French Swear Word 'Emmerder' Is So Hard To Translate
- (tags:translation language French France Pandemic faeces swearing )
- Two year olds say hilarious things
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Date: 2022-01-17 12:57 pm (UTC)I suspect the media were being a little over concerned about the truth of this naughty word.
It's not hard at all- just potentially embarrassing as it's not the sort of thing a president should be coming out with.
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Date: 2022-01-17 04:08 pm (UTC)8: My all-time favorite hilarious thing said by a small child was in a letter or blog somewhere by a mother who reported that her small son had apparently been reading too many fairy tales with evil stepmothers replacing saintly real mothers. He asked her, "Are you my real mother or my stepmother?" She replied, "Oh, I'm your real mother." He gave her a crafty look and said, "Are you sure?" At this point I can only presume that his mother fell over laughing so hard as to leave the boy utterly bewildered, because I certainly laughed very hard reading it.
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Date: 2022-01-17 04:33 pm (UTC)And there's a ton of context that they pick up like sponges. I'm never going to have to introduce her to the idea of "deer stalker hats and a magnifying glass are a shortcut for being a detective" because Muppet Babies has already done that, for instance.
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Date: 2022-01-17 05:47 pm (UTC)I can remember misunderstanding, not concepts, but words and phrases: I thought "approximately" meant exactly; that "scenic" meant something in it had to be moving; that "blind spot" meant you were literally struck blind if you looked in that direction - whether permanently or momentarily I wasn't sure and didn't want to find out the hard way; and that "out of wedlock" meant as a result of wedlock; you can imagine how confused I was at references to the last one.
Some day Sophia will see the original Sidney Paget illustrations and say, "Oh, that's where that came from." I've had that sort of experience occasionally.
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Date: 2022-01-17 07:16 pm (UTC)Yes, like being made out of steel or got out of a shop!
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Date: 2022-01-17 07:12 pm (UTC)I've heard that as a weird fact, in the sense that all the eggs that a woman will have in her life are already in her when she's born. But I don't know where Sophia would have heard that...
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