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Bekah :
Does planning to only speak to my future child/children in Klingon count as linguistic manipulation? If so then yes
2023-05-13 21:22:01
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ElHoy :
I've always wanted to teach my future children a conlang, even some really analitic conlang like Ithkuil or Lobjan
2023-05-15 13:50:25
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tt :
bro once we convinced my sister when she was like 4 a lion was a chicken and vice versa and got the whole family on on it. she cried
2023-05-14 16:05:04
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May :
my Dad mispronounces some words (not on purpose) so I learnt how to pronounce some words incorrectly
2023-05-14 12:33:32
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Lili Kontró :
I always thought it would be a fun little experiment to name my future kid something that's almost a real name but isn't - like Georbe or Jasom so (1)
2023-05-22 08:39:04
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thekabarza :
About the green and blue. We have this in Kurdish. Kinda. We distinguish them just like in English but…
2023-06-01 22:40:40
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Emma Jakobsen :
My dad taught me the wrong conjugations of words when I was a kid. I didn’t realise I was basically using a made up clause till I was a teen
2023-05-15 13:09:04
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grey 🪩 :
my family actually did that to my youngest sister. we told her the fox makes foxfoxfox sounds and she believes that just like a cat makes meow
2023-05-16 18:36:47
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Old Man Delta :
We did blue/green and pink/purple with my younger brother. Still messes him up to this day...
2023-05-14 03:01:33
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Ada :
There was a movie called Birthmarked about this kind of concept a while ago! It’s really interesting
2023-05-14 12:14:42
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will :
bro is sounding like the little albert scientists rn
2023-05-14 14:36:38
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E. St. Gull :
My father is a native Arabic speaker and he's always struggled with his B and Ps. I did pick up quite well but I slipped up maybe twice
2023-05-24 19:50:35
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Eve :
I am so glad I'm not alone
2023-05-15 13:42:12
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Martin :
they figure it out very quickly once they interact with anyone else. For example, I speak in a dialect but my son hasn’t picked it up at all.
2023-05-15 15:13:14
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raltvater :
I heard of someone who said "leh-too-key" instead of lettuce to ruin their kids' pronunciation of lettuce on purpose 🫠
2023-05-17 01:12:49
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idk what im doing :
my parents used to use the wrong emphasis in words as a joke. now I cannot say some words right and never know where to put emphasis
2023-05-13 23:38:05
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Eden Law :
I already have a plan! I’m gonna replace the word hot with spicy and see how long it will stick!
2023-05-15 00:43:24
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margot :
my dad had to like actually stop my mom from teaching me the wrong word for literally every object just cause she wanted to know what would happen
2023-05-16 01:57:26
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Jasper :
this reminds me that my aunt taught me the alphabet in the wrong order
2023-05-25 08:41:27
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Argon Panda :
My parents linguistically manipulated me into thinking English was the only good language. Now I’m 26 and wanting to be a polyglot
2023-05-22 20:21:27
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StrayaHog :
There’s a Paul Jennings book based around the idea of raising a kid to learn the opposite items due to the father wanting to see if TV would fix /p1
2023-05-15 13:56:16
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Annie :
he also told me that "alliteration" was a grilled cheese and "onomatopoeia" was a PB&J. didn't know that wasn't real until 7th grade
2023-05-17 23:04:50
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