Re: CHAT: Need a word for these!

En réponse à Morgan Palaeo Associates <morganpalaeo@...>:

>
> But the real question is this. Recently I browsed through my Year Four
> writing book, i.e. from when I was nine, to get material for a web
> page on the stories I wrote when I was young. In that writing book, I
> discovered about three pages near the start, entitled "The Helper of
> Understanding the Stories in this Book Dictionary" [sp/gr errors
> removed], which as it turns out is mostly a glossary of fictional
> diseases!! With what word do you describe the sort of nine-year-old
> mind that came up with *those*?
>
Simply a "nine-year-old boy" :))) . It's the age when you torture ants to see
how long they'll survive, keep on kicking you little daughter, and laugh at
anyone who has braces. And adults just say: "children can be cruel you know" :))

Actually, I never quite did that. At my first ant killed, I was so horrified by
my act that I never killed any animal again (at least not willingly), even the
smallest ones. I don't even attack mosquitoes and the like, unless ordered
too :)) . But in this case, I think I was the one with a strange behaviour when
I was nine :)) .

Christophe.

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