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The first one's just ambiguity isn't it? "Where did you hurt yourself? At Timmy's place"
by syllogism 8y ago
The first one's just ambiguity isn't it? "Where did you hurt yourself? At Timmy's place"
- benj111 8y agoYes, but its an example of how small children think
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoSometimes adults also think like this, in slightly less obvious ways.
- SilasX 8y agoRight, there's that old joke about the radio show that separately asked the husband and wife of a couple "where they had sex" and the second one interprets it as "which orifice" rather than "where were the two of you located when it happened".
- gowld 8y agoMallrats: "He wants to have sex in a really uncomfortable place" "Like in the back of a Volkswagon?"
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- pdpi 8y agoRight, but so is most language. We've just developed more or less conventional disambiguations — there's a lot of humour that comes from subverting those conventions — and small children haven't acquired that cultural baggage yet.
- pbhjpbhj 8y agoI had this exact situation yesterday with a 3yo child, "where did you bump yourself?" "[points to shelf] there". After asking twice I reworded and he got it eventually "where on your head did you get hurt" or something.