Over-regularizing the English Plural
We have three gigantic dice. I don't know where they came from. One is red, one is white, and one is blue.
Today my 3-year-old was playing with them. I grabbed two of them.
"Give me back the dices," she said.
As a cognitive scientist, I was very proud.
It took a lot of processing to apply a rule where it didn't belong.
Seventh grade English be damned!
Today my 3-year-old was playing with them. I grabbed two of them.
"Give me back the dices," she said.
As a cognitive scientist, I was very proud.
It took a lot of processing to apply a rule where it didn't belong.
Seventh grade English be damned!
Labels: arbitrary thought, brain, family, language
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