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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Teletubbies are peak stopgap pedagogy. Lots of scientific backing.

  Wait, hear me out. The whole show is set up so that you have repetitions of the same thing said at different levels of language acquisition so small kids can identify with whichever tubbie is at their level, look down a bit on the ones below that, and up to the ones above it (it goes all the way from pretty much baby speech to full adult). Thus their minds can climb the ladder.

  Under normal circumstances that kind of setup is present in a child’s environment – differently-aged kids, either in the family or neighbourhood, they get plenty of exposure. Now enter capitalism, alienation and atomisation and small kids get parked in front of the TV which might speak to them at a language level they aren’t at, and can’t react to them either, by translating their baby speech to more adult speech. Along come the Teletubbies, making sure that those kids at least have a resemblance of language skill once they reach school age.

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• Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Stop making me old! I can be young as long everyone works together to say 1999 was last year. And we can all believe we’ll be able to start up a tech company to get rich!

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  • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was born in 1980, so that’s fine with me

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• LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have managed to never see an episode of The Teletubbies

  I tried once. You haven’t missed much. Or maybe I’m not young and hip enough to get it.

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