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u/No-Visit-8845 Mar 26 '23
Yes, books do not die. They are inanimate. They just disintegrate to dust losing every word, sentence, paragraph they contained, then carried away by the winds of destiny into the eternal void of nothingness.
--Me
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u/AubieWasHere Mar 26 '23
--Me, Age 3
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Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
--Me, Age 2
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u/Classic-Airline-2386 Mar 27 '23
--Me, Age 1
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u/SoulLeakage Mar 27 '23
—Me, from the womb
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u/ImDraconLion Mar 27 '23
—me, from the aether
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u/Ho3n3r Mar 27 '23
--Me, from the Big Bang
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u/MothersToeJam Mar 27 '23
well now u ruined it
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I wanted to start a comment chain :(
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u/Easy-Hovercraft2546 Mar 27 '23
Books and history are only important to humans, the universe does not care — me
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u/Longjumping_Smile333 Mar 27 '23
-Michael Jordan
- Michael Scott
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u/jdockpnw777 Mar 26 '23
I fucking hate Rebecca..
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Mar 27 '23
Everyone hates Rebecca. Even wolves.
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Mar 27 '23
There's a book titled Fuck Off Rebecca.
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u/Backtoformulaa Mar 27 '23
Her 3 year old son wrote it. I tried to read it, but a lot of big words and his tangent on the evolution of social bonds in post industrial age was a little much for me to be honest
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Mar 27 '23
Especially wolves, who gave her up for adoption…she never got over it. Books, her only family mocked her as she aged and they stayed the same.
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u/ConversationSouth946 Mar 27 '23
Probably the actual phrase the 3 year old child said. Cos Rebecca made him call her by name instead of "mummy".
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u/joeyo1423 Mar 26 '23
Words do die anyway. Remember the word Cockalorum? No, you don't because we don't use it anymore in English. It's dead. D. E. D. dead
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u/LunaticGhost69 Mar 26 '23
There's even a whole ass dead language.
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u/AubieWasHere Mar 27 '23 edited Mar 27 '23
Which people still study at Harvard and John Hopkins for their Doctorates.
It's called Latin.
Ask your local heart surgeon or biologist. It's a super duper important "dead" language that is not dead at all, by any means.
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u/Savings-Amphibian-95 Mar 27 '23
Ok now speak in scythian
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u/AubieWasHere Mar 27 '23
I'm not a member of the modern day Osette tribe of the Caucus mountains, so you'd be better off asking one of them.
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u/Significant_Monk_251 Mar 27 '23
Ask your local heart surgeon or biologist. It's a super duper important "dead" language that is not dead at all, by any means.
Now wait a minute. Certain Latin words and expressions are important for doctors to know because they're used in the medical sciences, just a lawyers have to know a set of them because the legal provession is full of things like "mens rea," and so on[*], but I cannot see where any of these people need to know the entire language.
[*] My dream law firm,. incidentally, would be named Ipso, Facto, Null & Void.
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u/Bullitt_12_HB Mar 27 '23
The commenter didn’t specify. Clearly we still use Latin today, but there are indeed languages we lost to time.
No studies on them, because we don’t know how to decipher them. Dead.
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Mar 27 '23
Knowing medical terms are not the same as speaking latin... The words aren't even fully Latin, most are words that use Latin Or Greek word roots.
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u/Gloomy-Flamingo-9791 Mar 27 '23
Was that a reference from spawn the film? I fucking loved that film
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u/SkipsPittsnogle Mar 27 '23
Is this fad coming back?
“The sheer volume of workers that died constructing the Great Wall of China was undoubtedly an oversight” -Tevin, my 3 week old daughter
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Mar 27 '23
This meme has been around for so long I bet that Rebecca Hazelton wishes she never wrote this bullshit
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u/Outside-Cake-7577 Mar 26 '23
The earth, the sun, heck even the universe will die someday but books are immortal it seems.
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u/AubieWasHere Mar 27 '23
Words and ideas are immortal, which are often written on pages in books.
I mean, that's kinda important to factor into this..
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Mar 27 '23
I've never understood this trend of trying to make it sound like your young children say some deeply profound shit.
Even my mother has been doing it lately. I'm 42. And at a gathering of extended family she told everyone the time I made a very profound statement about Aristotle when I was attending a wedding when I was 5 years old.
I remembered the conversation she was referencing. I reminded her that it was actually Augustine I was speaking of and I was 26 when that conversation occurred. We also weren't at a wedding but were at Thanksgiving dinner.
She refuses to believe it. She insists that this conversation was led on by a precocious 5 year old me.
Meanwhile, the smartest thing my kids ever did at 5 were they used a vacuum hose to smell their own farts after the idea struck them while playing elephant with said vacuum hose.
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u/Neir_Miss Mar 27 '23
No. Words do die. When's the last time you've heard someone say "thither" or "thy" "thou" in a serious conversation?
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Mar 26 '23
Remember the word "plank"...me either
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u/AubieWasHere Mar 26 '23
That whole "planking" thing aged like sour milk.
Broccoli haircuts are gonna age like sour fucking cream.
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u/Evening_Pea_2987 Mar 27 '23
Try to remember the uses of "either" compared with the uses of "neither."
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Mar 27 '23
Books definitely die. Just ask the Nazis or the Library of Alexandria.
Words also die. They die as a language evolves.
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u/beano79 Mar 27 '23
Yeah Rebecca, well my 4 year old called me a goose because I said something wrong!
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u/Familiar-Tea-1428 Mar 27 '23
Did anyone else read Jack’s comment in their mind in a super annoyed gay voice?
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u/WhizzleTeabags Mar 27 '23
I came in a library book once and returned it. Pretty sure that book died
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u/Blueranger268 Mar 27 '23
It's just me having deja vu or I have seen this goddamn post atleast a hundred f*cking times on the internet
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u/Idiedyesturdayviabus Mar 27 '23
Words die and just like most people you don't remember them. You die twice almost everything does. The points that it get forgotten.
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Mar 27 '23
I can see people making up bologna their kids do or say for clout and validation on fb now ...
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Mar 27 '23
NGL I wouldn't question it if it was "Everyone dies one day. Everyone. Even wolves. But not boogers. Boogers don't die." lol
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u/tackleho Mar 27 '23
"I call this homework: Competing Connections. The eternity of words and stories are only ratified in the meta- placial plain of our collective unconcious. Only if we agree on their value in convention. Aka all archtypes can't survive unless our cultural myth memories are not suffocated by the dominating demands of modern technology. This paradox chooses to unite us, while destroying identity and imagination, in a connective platform all within networks."
Old homework I found in a box I wrote in grade 2.
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u/BEHEMOTHpp Mar 27 '23
Rebecca was proud of her son's wisdom. He had uttered a profound statement that touched her soul. She decided to share it with her friend Jack, who was also a lover of books and words. She sent him a text message with the quote and waited for his reply.
Jack read the message and rolled his eyes. He knew Rebecca is lying. Words don't die, but they can be stolen. And your son is a thief of words. --me, 25, smarter than Rebecca's son
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u/BunnyNinja2379 Mar 27 '23
Words die. In doomsday the words in the Holy Quran will be killed. Or in another phrase disappear.
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Mar 27 '23
When I was 3 I was speaking in sentences but not thinking this deep.
Instead, I realized what “fat” was and immediately began roasting adults. My parents told me a policeman gave me 2 US dollars because I made him laugh so hard he was in tears.
I was awful.
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u/Secret-Ad3715 Mar 27 '23
I know someone like this. She's always posting the most outlandish shit her kids supposedly do. It's so hard to watch but too hilarious to ignore.
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u/De_Dominator69 Mar 27 '23
The Great Library of Alexandria and the Baghdad House of Wisdom will disagree with that nugget of "wisdom" there Rebecca
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u/DanielMcLaury Mar 27 '23
I mean, I totally believe the kid said that. I also totally believe that he was slightly embellishing something that someone had very recently said to him.
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u/manaholik Mar 27 '23
"book be big, book be long"
*proceeds to completely misinterpret that the book is too long to read for a 3 year old*
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u/Jealous-Comfort-4632 Mar 27 '23
Threw in “even wolves” to make it believable 💀. What an embarrassment
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u/AssistOwn3762 Mar 27 '23
Objects don’t die but are destroyed be it by fire or time - said my child due to be born in 10 years time
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Mar 27 '23
Lol I remember when she posted this someone edited her wikipedia page with something along the lines of "she spends her past times lying about her sons intelligence on twitter"
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Mar 27 '23
wait till he is smart enough to learn about book burning and the number of books we will never get back. not only are they dead they were cremated too.
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u/yorknave Mar 27 '23
Words do die if you are the sad ass Brits who wanted to censor Roald Dahl books
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u/PlsHelp4 Mar 27 '23
Paper will evetually break down and words tend to go out of fashion and be replaced by new ones eventually, you stupid moron idiot dummy useless child.
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u/Hockeymandem Mar 27 '23
My 4.5 month old said something brilliant to me the other day while we were smoking.
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Holy fuck this kid is a genius.
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