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3, crimes of the hot, is the one where all the robots fart to move the planet away from the sun and stop global warming, right?

Hell is other robots

A head in the polls

Problem with poplers

War is the H word

One of the serious ones, either Devil’s Hands, The sting, or the one that doesn’t get named.

I always presumed Yoda’s native language was an Object Subject Verb (OSV) language, or used OSV for emphasis. It’s common for 2nd language speakers to occasionally slip into native language grammar - such as Chinese speakers omitting the/a.

Yoda can correctly use SVO in English (Galactic Common iirc?), just not all the time. Again suggesting a proficient non-native speaker. For example: ”Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”

Yaddle doesn’t speak like Yoda, indicating either better fluency or an SVO native language - not all the species need speak the same native language.

Nowadays we’d write it as X.I.U. because wade-giles is just a mess.

We had magic mirrors and magic fans for centuries tho.

We’ve had solar and wind electricity generation for centuries?

Burning down your house doesn’t poison people thousands of years later, so it’s not a perfect analogy.

Plus we have magic mirrors and magic fans that do the same thing as the magic rocks just way cheaper.

Remember when Silvio Berlusconi lied, cheated, raped and stole his way through public life, gaining wealth and fame, dying at the ripe age of 86 without facing justice and after having set the stage for even more extreme fascists to take over?

History shows that often, very often, the baddies just win.

When I worked in a mall, there were no staff toilets. So I was subjected to a slightly less extreme version of that maybe 2-3 times a week.

I call that symphony “ringing the taco bells”.

Why would you peel a carrot?

Since long legs would be impossible

Luckily those long slim arms are completely unaffected by that same gravity.

It’s a great painting but yeah it does look like someone had to explain what a child is to the artist who’d never heard of such a thing and wasn’t really paying attention to the explanation.

Children pick up language at different rates. But also, while most kids learn words and build up, some learn to deploy whole chunks.

My cousin could say “Excuse me daddy could I please have a cookie?” at like 2 iirc. It sounds very advanced when you hear it, but she couldn’t, for example, replace ‘a cookie’ with ‘that’ or direct the request to me rather than her dad.

Once kids have learned more and more chunks they can sound very proficient, but it’s still just normal child language acquisition. Of course people gifted in language can happen too.

Baby-talk is a universal human phenomenal and almost certainly plays an important role in helping kids learn language.

The implication that not using baby talk somehow unlocks rapid development of language is simply not true.