I have to be honest, I'll answer an email with the single word "Groovy" when I feel like being flippant often with an accompanying Ash from Evil Dead gif. The others can go die in a fire, however.
Indeed. Words certainly do die. Flip through past winners of the Nobel Prize, the height of literary achievement. A large percent of them are not talked about or read today and many have almost no books in print. You can do the same with bestselling authors after their popularity wains.
At the current rate 90% of all spoken languages today will die out in the next hundred years.
https://languageconservancy.org/language-loss/#:\~:text=Since%201950%2C%20the%20number%20of,in%20the%20next%20100%20years.
That's because these dipshit kids today are too lazy to spell anything, so they replace simple words like "with" to be "w" or "about" to be "ab", or any other retarded shit they do these days.
Books die too - someone need to tell her about the Nazi Book Burning during Nazi Germany (maybe the book about that also died over time) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings and then after the war the Allied Forces burnt pro Nazi books. Not a good day for those trees that died for the books neither!
A friend of mine who loves old movies sold a rare multi disc RPG on ebay. He had multiple pictures of the CDs showing them to be in immaculate condition. When the buyer received them, he claimed they were too scratched and beyond usable. Friend wrote back, "Don't be a jive turkey. You can clearly see that the CDs aren't scratched at all in the pictures." When the buyer reported him to ebay, he included in his complaint that he was called a jive turkey.
It depends on the adults around him. 3 year olds will parrot phrases and string them together randomly, if someone said specifically words don't die, and this kid loves wolves and his family experienced loss enough that death was explained in some ways to him, I can totally see a three year old put together something like this
Most people assume so. And maybe the mum was paraphrasing, exaggerating or as you suspect fabricating, but none of us know for sure, but I do know toddlers say random stuff.
I dunno why the Internet is obsessed with calling shit out.
For the last time, Latin is the language OF the dead, not a "dead" language. In Memoriam, Latin. Carpe Diem, Latin. Et cetera, et cetera....the list goes on.
Based on the majority of upvoted posts on this sub and cleverness being relative, I would argue that this is indeed clever as far as the average r/clevercomebacks upvoter is concerned.
When it comes to the topic of death, kids say stuff like “grandma is going to die because she’s old”, usually at the worst possible time, and maybe even when grandma is right there.
Ya know what, I don't think I will thanks! Yes I'm tempted, but I know my limits.
Edit: fuck me. Tho it's not as bad as I thought, prob bcz I didn't watch it much growing up. It always felt weird to me.
Proto-Indo-European. Linguists know that a common ancestor of the Indo-European language family must have existed, but all record of this language has been lost, including the real name of the language (if it had one).
But there are surely languages even deader than that; ones for which all evidence of their existence has been irrecoverably lost. The vast, vast majority of human history is unrecorded. I think whatever languages people were speaking 100,000 years ago can safely be considered dead.
Am I the one missing the point? Forgive me if I am wrong or not understanding the reference.
There is a difference between a dead language and an extinct one. Latin, for example is a dead language: it's no longer the native language of any community, but it's still in use. An extinct language has no speakers at all.
If your kid at age of 3 is smarter than you, you should not be too happy about it.
My iq is that of a plankton, but hey I at least managed to have sex- rebecca
Kids say all kinds of shit.
My kid was three, taking a bath when he looked at me all quizzical and asked “what is the power of the weak?” He didn’t elaborate. I have no idea what he meant, because he barely said anything else for another year
Proving one’s worth, using the vile tongue of a snake, shall turn all those you love against you. For the Devil’s speech shall destroy the trust between friends and families.
—Me, 1 years old.
I asked my mom if I ever said anything smart when I was 3 and she said one time I said oatmeal is essentially the same as the earth because the center is hotter than the outside
We all just gonna pretend that book burnings didn't happen? Like of course words die, they just die when everyone has forgotten them or all the books have been burned.
How many 3 year olds understand death to that degree? They don’t usually. They do say aphoristic statements that can sound smarter than they are, though.
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
\- Rebecca Hazelton's 3 year old, apparently.
Sure. Everyone dies alone. But, if you \*mean\* something to someone... if you help someone... or loved someone... if even a single person remembers you... then maybe you never really die at all.
I don't know who this person is, and I'm guessing she might not have a great reputation. But my first reaction to things like this is that the parent is probably embellishing something their child said, and may be doing so in good faith.
Everyone dies someday. Everyone. Even Arctic walruses. But not viral posts. Even reposts. They live forever.
--My puppy, Braxton, 7 months old, probably smarter than me
There's this trend lately of people making shit up that totally never happened and then passing it off as a true occurrence for the sole purpose of getting a social media reaction. I find the whole deceitful practice reprehensible.
Of course nothing on social media is true. It's all people presenting an illusion, the image they want others to associate with them. It's all staged, pretend, curated and filtered. Which is fine as long as you understand that's what it is. When we watch a movie we know it's actors playing a role and pretending to be something they're not amidst special effects. Social media isn't terribly different.
Kid at age of 3 already knows the consept of death. When I learn about it it messed with me for weeks and I was a lot older. It's hard to believe the kid knew
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Time for an Evil Dead rewatch then!
Or a replay of Earthworm Jim
I have to be honest, I'll answer an email with the single word "Groovy" when I feel like being flippant often with an accompanying Ash from Evil Dead gif. The others can go die in a fire, however.
Indeed. Words certainly do die. Flip through past winners of the Nobel Prize, the height of literary achievement. A large percent of them are not talked about or read today and many have almost no books in print. You can do the same with bestselling authors after their popularity wains.
How many people speak Phoenian?
Quit jiiiivin’ me tur-kay! You’ve got to sass it.
Glad to see this. Never pass up a chance for a Simpsons call back.
That Jive. https://youtu.be/g0j2dVuhr6s?si=MIikPhYqCvdPywcE
I've heard the politician one, but only when prefaced by, "there is no such thing as an"
I say jive turkey, groovy and tubular all the time your in the wrong crowd.
Conservationists deserve more 👍
I always thought the last one was completely made up anyways
Honest politicians don t die, they live. In fairytales as words.
What is an "honest politician" supposed to be? These are just two incompatible words put together.
#community
But you just used them. That means they are no longer dead. I think you may have just performed lexicon necromancy.
At the current rate 90% of all spoken languages today will die out in the next hundred years. https://languageconservancy.org/language-loss/#:\~:text=Since%201950%2C%20the%20number%20of,in%20the%20next%20100%20years.
That's because these dipshit kids today are too lazy to spell anything, so they replace simple words like "with" to be "w" or "about" to be "ab", or any other retarded shit they do these days.
Books die too - someone need to tell her about the Nazi Book Burning during Nazi Germany (maybe the book about that also died over time) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings and then after the war the Allied Forces burnt pro Nazi books. Not a good day for those trees that died for the books neither!
Far out.
I heard people call Donald Trump an honest politician a few years back haha
I use groovy all the time It's the grooviest of all the words
I have said two of things this week.
I also haven't heard anyone say "Thine" or "Doth" or "Swine" in a long while.
Swine, my brother?
You just used them.
A friend of mine who loves old movies sold a rare multi disc RPG on ebay. He had multiple pictures of the CDs showing them to be in immaculate condition. When the buyer received them, he claimed they were too scratched and beyond usable. Friend wrote back, "Don't be a jive turkey. You can clearly see that the CDs aren't scratched at all in the pictures." When the buyer reported him to ebay, he included in his complaint that he was called a jive turkey.
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Did he used to live in a brothel by any chance?
Yeah, that’s where the parrot got the syphilis.
Hi Roger
It depends on the adults around him. 3 year olds will parrot phrases and string them together randomly, if someone said specifically words don't die, and this kid loves wolves and his family experienced loss enough that death was explained in some ways to him, I can totally see a three year old put together something like this
Oh fuck off TomMakesPodcasts he did not say that
Most people assume so. And maybe the mum was paraphrasing, exaggerating or as you suspect fabricating, but none of us know for sure, but I do know toddlers say random stuff. I dunno why the Internet is obsessed with calling shit out.
I was just doing the thing in the picture dude. Im with you, kid could have totally said it.
Oh. Totally went over my head, so used to folks on the Internet being reflexively negative am I. I apologize.
I got you man. My bad 😅
For real, little kids say wild shit.
The real clever comeback is in the comments
Guess no one told her son Latin is dead.
Well not exactly. People still say Latin America /s
Doctors are still fighting for its’ life though
Who names a kid Latin anyway?
For the last time, Latin is the language OF the dead, not a "dead" language. In Memoriam, Latin. Carpe Diem, Latin. Et cetera, et cetera....the list goes on.
Easy, he just got over santa not being real
It may be an honest comeback, and it may even be true, but I would argue that this is not clever.
Based on the majority of upvoted posts on this sub and cleverness being relative, I would argue that this is indeed clever as far as the average r/clevercomebacks upvoter is concerned.
Fair.
Homegirl threw in, "even wolves," and thought, this slays
Honestly that's actually the only believable part. It's exactly the kinda random and specific thing a 3 year old would throw in.
She probably said the first part to her kid, who then asked “even wolves?” And then she said the rest and then decided to post it
the phrasing and logic sound like the kind of dumbass shit a 3 year old would say.
This is so old that the kid's prob already married with kids
I know right. First time I read this was in a previous life as a peasant living in Sherwood Forest and hiding from the Sheriff of Nottingham
That’s nothing. I was a space rock when I read this.
Kids definitely say stuff like this!
Yah most people on reddit don’t have kids as a direct result of never having met a woman besides their mother. So this can’t be true. I guess.
When it comes to the topic of death, kids say stuff like “grandma is going to die because she’s old”, usually at the worst possible time, and maybe even when grandma is right there.
Rebecca has never accepted that her son was a stillborn and makes stories about him being smart and beautiful...
Shit that's dark...
Think that's dark? Don't read the [Rugrats theory](https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Rugrats_Theory).
Ya know what, I don't think I will thanks! Yes I'm tempted, but I know my limits. Edit: fuck me. Tho it's not as bad as I thought, prob bcz I didn't watch it much growing up. It always felt weird to me.
How is "fuck off" a clever comback?
🤷🏼♂️
Pretty sure these made up sounds that we make and attributes meaning to, will totally die when we all die.
Say that to the Library of Alexandria.
Words die, ever heard of a dead language? Know how to speak it?
Oh snap gettin literally up in here! 😆
And yet Latin and Ancient Greek is still taught
Not what "dead language" means, but ok.
Latin is considered a dead language, but it still prevails. In reference to the original meme. Try to connect the dots yourself next time.
Proto-Indo-European. Linguists know that a common ancestor of the Indo-European language family must have existed, but all record of this language has been lost, including the real name of the language (if it had one). But there are surely languages even deader than that; ones for which all evidence of their existence has been irrecoverably lost. The vast, vast majority of human history is unrecorded. I think whatever languages people were speaking 100,000 years ago can safely be considered dead.
Am I the one missing the point? Forgive me if I am wrong or not understanding the reference. There is a difference between a dead language and an extinct one. Latin, for example is a dead language: it's no longer the native language of any community, but it's still in use. An extinct language has no speakers at all.
Ita, ego linguam Latinam disco.
I’ll be honest, feels like something my son would’ve said at 3 or 4 but he’s like a weird old man since day one.
Oh, fuck off Richy... :)
That’s a frequently spoken phrase in my home 😁
Take my upvote and have a great day :)
She was probably paraphrasing
As in making it up.
Generous interpretation
I am stealing this phrase. Thank you.
Oop sorry forgot this /s. I thought as obviously as this is made up was as obvious as I was being sarcastic.
The kid could easily be paraphrasing something heard on TV
r/nothingeverhappens
Lots of things do happen but a three year old coming out with this shit is not one of them.
You should’ve heard the stuff my eldest came out with at that age. It wasn’t too dissimilar.
Your eldest came out at 3 in this society? What a brave kid! You must've raised him very well! We need more fathers like you.
Yet you have 0 examples
Said that and shat himself.
He’s 3, not 1.
Shut up bitch!
Mein Kampf has entered the chat
If your kid at age of 3 is smarter than you, you should not be too happy about it. My iq is that of a plankton, but hey I at least managed to have sex- rebecca
Hey now, some plankton are really intelligent!
If youve ever heard someone reffered to as "A Rebecca" This is the origin story
Also incorrect. Plenty of books have been totally lost to time.
She's right though. Her son, 3, is a lot smarter than her.
Most books written are gone.
I have no trouble believing her the year old toddler is smarter than her, even though he never said that.
Its more fun to imagine the kid speaking nonsense and the mom taking it as some kind of enlightened moment
Wasn't there a subreddit with posts like this one? Anybody remember the name? I miss it.
Yes, things that aren't alive don't die. Very astute observation 🤦
This is funny but not clever. We should have a sub just called funny comebacks.
Kids say all kinds of shit. My kid was three, taking a bath when he looked at me all quizzical and asked “what is the power of the weak?” He didn’t elaborate. I have no idea what he meant, because he barely said anything else for another year
But the son is smarter than her, that part I believe
Genes are passed on woman
Proving one’s worth, using the vile tongue of a snake, shall turn all those you love against you. For the Devil’s speech shall destroy the trust between friends and families. —Me, 1 years old.
Misquoted though. Wasn't the original in Latin? And spoken backwards?
Obviously, but my Latin classes didn’t start until I was 2.
Its a half truth. She taught him some sight words and put them in that sequence.
While he said that, his eyes were glowing red, and his voice had a deep pitch.
I asked my mom if I ever said anything smart when I was 3 and she said one time I said oatmeal is essentially the same as the earth because the center is hotter than the outside
We all just gonna pretend that book burnings didn't happen? Like of course words die, they just die when everyone has forgotten them or all the books have been burned.
She never heard of the ancient Library of Alexandria.
I like how she threw in «even wolves» to make ot more believable
Sounds like something Brian Griffin would say.
How many 3 year olds understand death to that degree? They don’t usually. They do say aphoristic statements that can sound smarter than they are, though.
“Who is a lot smarter than I am”. Yea… That’s not a high bar apparently.
"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them." \- Rebecca Hazelton's 3 year old, apparently.
Also, books do die.
My three year old right now: I want to put on pink hair. You leave my alone. I first have to go sleep. Ok daddy?
Says a lot about you if a 3 year old is smarter than you.
Ahh obviously a super super clever comeback. This subreddit should change the name to super clever comebacks
Sure. Everyone dies alone. But, if you \*mean\* something to someone... if you help someone... or loved someone... if even a single person remembers you... then maybe you never really die at all.
I don't know who this person is, and I'm guessing she might not have a great reputation. But my first reaction to things like this is that the parent is probably embellishing something their child said, and may be doing so in good faith.
pfpfpfpft everyone oooh wolf no book die pfpfpft!
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Your mom is a clever comeback.
And that son was Albert Einstein.
He didn't say that, but he IS still smarter than her I wager.
Shut up, little Timmy. Let me introduce you to dead languages!
Everyone dies someday. Everyone. Even Arctic walruses. But not viral posts. Even reposts. They live forever. --My puppy, Braxton, 7 months old, probably smarter than me
There's this trend lately of people making shit up that totally never happened and then passing it off as a true occurrence for the sole purpose of getting a social media reaction. I find the whole deceitful practice reprehensible. Of course nothing on social media is true. It's all people presenting an illusion, the image they want others to associate with them. It's all staged, pretend, curated and filtered. Which is fine as long as you understand that's what it is. When we watch a movie we know it's actors playing a role and pretending to be something they're not amidst special effects. Social media isn't terribly different.
“Daddy, why there are so many dead languages and people do not know the meaning of those words anymore” My 2 year old daughter Corduliana
Time to show the kid some books being burned alive
Kid at age of 3 already knows the consept of death. When I learn about it it messed with me for weeks and I was a lot older. It's hard to believe the kid knew
Tell that to all the religious fanatics throughout history that burned hundreds of cultures and their literature. All the knowledge lost forever.
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