Vocabulary presumably means learning the meaning of something, which means the parents must have been pretty dedicated in teaching the child the word "twelve" without poisoning their mind with knowledge of how to say any other numbers.
xkcd #2839: Language Acquisition
Submitted 8 months ago by thedarkfly@feddit.nl to xkcd@lemmy.world
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Sentrovasi@kbin.social 8 months ago
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world 8 months ago
teaching the child the word “twelve” without poisoning their mind with knowledge of how to say any other numbers.
Not to mention the small things in life, like “vocabulary” and “update”.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Or the kid has 12 fingers.
zloe_zlo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That was exactly twelve words!
TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee 8 months ago
I…I think that’s part of the joke, yes.
kerr@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I was wondering who else counted the words lol
remotelove@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I did and confirm twelve words as well.
RocketBoots@programming.dev 8 months ago
Oh wow, it’s been awhile. They had a child? I’m so happy for them!
palordrolap@kbin.social 8 months ago
Reminds me of the time I made a comment on Spez-site about passwords of exactly 64 characters. Oh wait. This is 128. Never mind.
LostLukas@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Is there even another sensible way to arrange these 12 words?
unreachable@lemmy.world 8 months ago
SLM = Small Language Model