Talk:2839: Language Acquisition - Revision history

82.132.239.77: Was added as an alteration of a prior comment. Did not even look like a revisiting IP modifying their 2½-year-old contribution, but technically a 'reply' , so redone as a reply (rather than reverted away as unwanted vandalism).

2026-02-20T14:13:33Z

Was added as an alteration of a prior comment. Did not even look like a revisiting IP modifying their 2½-year-old contribution, but technically a 'reply' , so redone as a reply (rather than reverted away as unwanted vandalism).

131.242.7.53: 13, not 12

2026-02-20T02:23:44Z

13, not 12

42.book.addict at 21:19, 2 February 2024

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NiceGuy1 at 04:22, 14 October 2023

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172.69.70.7: /* A related game: What sentences could have been formed on the preceding eleven days? */

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‎A related game: What sentences could have been formed on the preceding eleven days?

172.69.71.3: /* A related game: What sentences could have been formed on the preceding eleven days? */

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‎A related game: What sentences could have been formed on the preceding eleven days?

172.69.194.154 at 12:06, 11 October 2023

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172.71.103.184 at 07:43, 11 October 2023

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Lone Haranguer at 21:57, 10 October 2023

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162.158.238.40: typo, missing letter

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typo, missing letter

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 : I update vocabulary today, bringing to my '''total''' another learned word.
 : Vocabulary update: I learned another word today, bringing my total to '''twelve'''.
 [[Special:Contributions/172.69.70.7|172.69.70.7]] 20:12, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
+:ACTUALLY, there is 13.{{unsigned ip|131.242.7.53|02:23, 20 February 2026}}
 == A generalization to the related game ==

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 : I update vocabulary today, bringing to my '''total''' another learned word.
 : Vocabulary update: I learned another word today, bringing my total to '''twelve'''.
 [[Special:Contributions/172.69.70.7|172.69.70.7]] 20:12, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

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	The first words I learned to spell were "ON" and "OFF" due to my high chair being located next to the light switch. My grand nephew one day announced ``I learned to spell a word: HDMI''.[[User:Lone Haranguer\|Lone Haranguer]] ([[User talk:Lone Haranguer\|talk]]) 21:57, 10 October 2023 (UTC)		The first words I learned to spell were "ON" and "OFF" due to my high chair being located next to the light switch. My grand nephew one day announced ``I learned to spell a word: HDMI''.[[User:Lone Haranguer\|Lone Haranguer]] ([[User talk:Lone Haranguer\|talk]]) 21:57, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
		+	:Very nice. I wish I had such fruitful learning experiences-I couldn’t talk in full sentences until 4. [[User:42.book.addict\|42.book.addict]] ([[User talk:42.book.addict\|talk]]) 21:19, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

	Is the leftmost block schwa or upside down? The world may never know. [[User:Certified_nqh\|Me]]<sup>[[[285: Wikipedian Protester\|''citation needed'']]][[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]]</sup> 22:14, 9 October 2023 (UTC)		Is the leftmost block schwa or upside down? The world may never know. [[User:Certified_nqh\|Me]]<sup>[[[285: Wikipedian Protester\|''citation needed'']]][[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]]</sup> 22:14, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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 It is probably obvious to say it, but: If the person in the title text is the same person speaking in the pane, there's a contradiction here, since if your first words were the seven unique words in "these were my first words what were yours" ("were" is duplicated) then "I learned another word today bringing my total up to twelve " adds another ten (duplicating "my"), for a total of seventeen. Or nineteen if you count "vocabulary" and "update." I'm not sure what to make of this, since Randall is surely aware of it. Perhaps I miss a subtlety. Or maybe the title text is spoken by a different character. [[User:JohnHawkinson|JohnHawkinson]] ([[User talk:JohnHawkinson|talk]]) 21:43, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
 :The title text is often taken as coming from Randall. In the comic, Cueball is often a stand-in for Randall, but in this comic the text is coming from Baby Hairy. So the title text is contrasting the baby's first words with Randall's. Although they share the feature of being self-referential. [[User:Barmar|Barmar]] ([[User talk:Barmar|talk]]) 23:48, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
 A friend of mine said that his child's first words were "isi, äiti, kondensaattori" (dad, mom, capacitor). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.238.41|162.158.238.41]] 22:07, 9 October 2023 (UTC)

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 : I update vocabulary today, bringing to my '''total''' another learned word.
 : Vocabulary update: I learned another word today, bringing my total to '''twelve'''.
 == A generalization to the related game ==

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	[[User:Baralong\|Baralong]] ([[User talk:Baralong\|talk]]) 07:59, 10 October 2023 (UTC)		[[User:Baralong\|Baralong]] ([[User talk:Baralong\|talk]]) 07:59, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
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		+	My attempt:
		+	01: '''Learned.'''
		+	02: '''I''' learned.
		+	03: I learned "'''another'''."
		+	04: I learned another '''word'''.
		+	05: Another word I learned: "'''Update'''."
		+	06: Another update: I learned '''my''' word.
		+	07: My '''vocabulary''' update: I learned another word.
		+	08: I update my vocabulary '''today''', another word learned.
		+	09: I learned another word today '''to''' update my vocabulary.
		+	10: '''Bringing''' another word I learned to my vocabulary today.
		+	11: I update vocabulary today, bringing to my '''total''' another learned word.
		+	12: Vocabulary update: I learned another word today, bringing my total to '''twelve'''.
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	== A generalization to the related game ==		== A generalization to the related game ==

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	:: very interesting! I have edited my original comment with that new rule. Sentences like {{w\|colorless green ideas sleep furiously}} are totally allowed :) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.97\|172.71.26.97]] 12:28, 10 October 2023 (UTC)Bumpf		:: very interesting! I have edited my original comment with that new rule. Sentences like {{w\|colorless green ideas sleep furiously}} are totally allowed :) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.97\|172.71.26.97]] 12:28, 10 October 2023 (UTC)Bumpf

−	This seems to be a spoof of Duolingo progress reports, celebrating achievements of learning words. The well formed sentence would be presented as the training sentence. The achievement would not be autonomous but prompted. 20231011 Morie	+	This seems to be a spoof of Duolingo progress reports, celebrating achievements of learning words. The well formed sentence would be presented as the training sentence. The achievement would not be autonomous but prompted. 20231011 Morie {{unsigned ip\|172.71.103.184\|07:43, 11 October 2023}}

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	:I think you could get a very long way by simply continuing to stack adjectives on a noun, so you might have to bar that too. Also, is it just grammatically correct, or does the the sentence have to make sense, because those are not the same thing, and allowing nonsense would give a lot more leeway.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.30\|172.71.242.30]] 08:47, 10 October 2023 (UTC)		:I think you could get a very long way by simply continuing to stack adjectives on a noun, so you might have to bar that too. Also, is it just grammatically correct, or does the the sentence have to make sense, because those are not the same thing, and allowing nonsense would give a lot more leeway.[[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.30\|172.71.242.30]] 08:47, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
	:: very interesting! I have edited my original comment with that new rule. Sentences like {{w\|colorless green ideas sleep furiously}} are totally allowed :) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.97\|172.71.26.97]] 12:28, 10 October 2023 (UTC)Bumpf		:: very interesting! I have edited my original comment with that new rule. Sentences like {{w\|colorless green ideas sleep furiously}} are totally allowed :) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.26.97\|172.71.26.97]] 12:28, 10 October 2023 (UTC)Bumpf
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		+	This seems to be a spoof of Duolingo progress reports, celebrating achievements of learning words. The well formed sentence would be presented as the training sentence. The achievement would not be autonomous but prompted. 20231011 Morie

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 A friend of mine said that his child's first words were "isi, äiti, kondensaattori" (dad, mom, capacitor). [[Special:Contributions/162.158.238.41|162.158.238.41]] 22:07, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
 Is the leftmost block schwa or upside down? The world may never know. [[User:Certified_nqh|Me]]<sup>&#91;[[285: Wikipedian Protester|''citation needed'']]&#93;[[Category:Pages using the "citation needed" template]]</sup> 22:14, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
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 :::Azerbaijani has a capital schwa that looks like that: Ə [[Special:Contributions/172.70.223.177|172.70.223.177]] 00:50, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 ::If the child's first number is "twelve," I don't see why their second number should not be "two point seven one eight two eight one eight two eight." [[User:JohnHawkinson|JohnHawkinson]] ([[User talk:JohnHawkinson|talk]]) 01:37, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
 Re the rules (barring the contradiction said above): If Day 1 was "Another", Day 2 can't be "I learned" or "vocabulary word" unless the child skips some days and isn't learning at a rate of one word per day. If it's A Word A Day, your options must be just one other word - so in the example case, "word" could work to make "another word" work. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.39|162.158.2.39]] 23:14, 9 October 2023 (UTC)