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@JohnSaveourSocks@lemmy.world to General Discussion@lemmy.world •
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Hey. You. Fill in the blank.

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Hey. You. Fill in the blank.

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  • Barttier
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    26•2 years ago

    …of them.

    I said the last sentence two times for emphasis.

    • @zecg@lemmy.world
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      6•2 years ago

      That doubling rate is worrying

  • Kyoyeou (Ki jəʊ juː)
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    18•2 years ago

    From Wikipedia for the people like me that are curious

    A Nice link to the Wiki Page

    Gleason devised the Wug Test as part of her earliest research (1958), which used nonsense words to gauge children’s acquisition of morphological rules‍—‌for example, the “default” rule that most English plurals are formed by adding an /s/, /z/, or /ɪz/ sound depending on the final consonant, e.g. hat–hats, eye–eyes, witch–witches. A child is shown simple pictures of a fanciful creature or activity, with a nonsense name, and prompted to complete a statement about it:

    This is a WUG. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two ________. Each “target” word was a made-up (but plausible-sounding) pseudoword, so that the child cannot have heard it before. A child who knows that the plural of witch is witches may have heard and memorized that pair, but a child responding that the plural of wug (which the child presumably has never heard) is wugs (/wʌgz/, using the /z/ allomorph since “wug” ends in a voiced consonant) has apparently inferred (perhaps unconsciously) the basic rule for forming plurals.

    • @Moshpirit@lemmy.world
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      3•2 years ago

      Thank you!

  • @JohnSaveourSocks@lemmy.worldOP
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    16•2 years ago

    Here is the source, by the way.

    • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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      I sat here, for like 5 minutes, saying wugs out loud trying to figure out the joke before I clicked through to the comments and saw this lol

    • @MisterChief@lemmy.world
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      Thank you, I was confused.

      I immediately went to “now there are two wug wugs”.

  • @Ddhuud@lemmy.world
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    9•2 years ago

    Why nobody says wugs?

  • @zaphod@feddit.de
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    3•2 years ago

    It’s wug, but you pronounce it like weeg.

  • @grue@lemmy.world
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    2•2 years ago

    wugii

  • The Giant Korean
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    1•2 years ago

    Wugae

  • @JohnSaveourSocks@lemmy.worldOP
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    1•2 years ago

    I would love to see how you all handle this one: “This is a dog with QUIRKS on him. He is all covered in QUIRKS. What kind of a dog is he? He is a ________ dog.”

    • @thegreatgarbo@lemmy.world
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      Quirky!

    • @noproblemmy@lemmy.world
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      Quirk infested

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      deleted by creator

  • 𝕯𝖎𝖕𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖙
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    1•2 years ago

    poots

  • @SamB@lemmy.world
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    1•2 years ago

    There are two weg.

  • @Ddhuud@lemmy.world
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    deleted by creator

  • TheWoozy
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    1•2 years ago

    badly drawn birds

  • @Moshpirit@lemmy.world
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    Wugerfuckers

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    deleted by creator

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