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| I hope it does a good job. | | I hope it does a good job. | ||
β | | | + | | A baby actually does nothing that can be described as a ''job'', so this statement is not meaningful. |
+ | If it were about the future of the baby, it would be a socially very inadequate comment to care only about the possible usefulness of the baby, than to anticipate the joy of the parents about the child's person. | ||
+ | Alternatively, Cueball could mean ''does a good job of making the parents feel happy/fulfilled/meaningful'' in other words fulfill the reason the couple decided to have the baby in the first place. If he was talking about the job a baby could have, he might have been thinking about the baby's education, | ||
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| Wow, that's a really cool baby! | | Wow, that's a really cool baby! |