xkcd: Language Acquisition
xkcd: Language Acquisition
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Source: https://xkcd.com/2839/
Explain XKCD: https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2839
Title text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'
Reads comic.
Goes back to count how many words are in the comic.
137 1 ReplyI wish my future child would send remote log for easy management.
timestamp hostname process level text [DT] child1 shit WARNING child1 shat. Refresh diaper. 100 1 ReplyChild1? You start numbering at 1? You monster!
37 0 ReplyYou keep child0 unassigned in case the girl you met at the club three years ago starts looking for you
32 0 ReplyBetter not ask what happened to child0
26 0 ReplyWhat have I done
6 0 Reply
If he ever sends a 404, hopefully he just returns on all fours.
3 0 Reply
Who learns twelve before one through eleven?
58 0 ReplyThat's my favorite part of this joke.
48 0 ReplyPermanently Deleted
13 0 ReplyIs twelve a number or a word?
10 0 ReplyThere is only a distinction when written, when spoken everything is words.
28 0 ReplyYes
2 0 Reply
Twist: he knows more than 12 words, he just didn't learn the right number
46 0 ReplyYeah, I immediately thought of that scene in the West Wing.
President Josiah Bartlet : Sweden has a 100% literacy rate, Leo. 100%! How do they do that?
Leo McGarry : Well, maybe they don't and they also can't count
20 0 ReplyActually, I've always had a rather extensive vocabulary, not to mention a phenomenal grasp of grammar and a superlative command of syntax. I simply chose not to employ them.
10 0 ReplyFor the uninitiated, uh huh had only ever said uh huh throughout the movie till he drops this.
14 2 Reply
THESE WORDS ARE ACCEPTED.
29 0 ReplyIs that a stormlight archive reference?
7 0 ReplyIt'd be so much weirder if it wasn't.
2 0 Reply
Used every word he had to make that sentence
21 1 ReplyThere are now two ____.
18 0 Replyof them
3 0 Reply4 0 Reply
wuggles
1 0 Reply
Didnt' forget this time!
Hopefully I did that correctly
16 0 ReplyHow do you count to twelve without knowing the other numbers?
10 0 Reply