8-YO commented this morning that "tomb" is pronounced "toom," and "womb" is pronounced "woom," so why isn't "bomb" pronounced "boom," and I was happy to be able to tell her that it's because our world was not created by God but rather by an incompetent subordinate demiurge, a sort of sorcerer's apprentice if you w
@aristofontes this is funny but for real I told my 7 year old son that the English language sucks and it's really hard for everyone else too. At first he was scandalized and giggled at me, then I told him I wasn't joking and he started crying and ran to hug me and thank me because he thought it was easy for everyone else and he was just dumb.