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Alt text: My first words were 'These were my first words; what were yours?'

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year 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".