Searching "comments":
| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Sure, they should be allowed to be as miserable and repressed as straight people. | Should homosexual couples have the right to marry legally in The United States of America? |
| 22 | On the contrary, it shows a remarkable lack of imagination for an 8-year-old. | An eight-year-old girl wrote this, as a beginning to her book (which was modelled on 19th-century literature for children). Do you consider it advanced for her age? |
| 23 | If this is indeed an 8-year-old's writing, she probably impresses many adults with her big vocabulary and her logical storyline, but there's no spark of originality or insight in this writing. This writer seems to be parroting what she's read in other books. It may not be direct, word-for-word plagiarism, but it certainly seems like a digest of other books she's read. Usually, young children come up with plots and characters that are much more inventive than this, and perceptions about their environment that are astonishingly fresh. I suspect this child has been reinforced too many times by ignorant grown-ups who value all the wrong things. They probably pat her on the head when she parrots, but turn away in disgust when she brings them a beautiful squashed butterfly, or fingerpaints with the pasta sauce, like an 8-year-old should be doing. They are creating a boring cog-of-society in the process. A real prodigy is not a child who learns grown-up values quickly, but one who can convey the original insights of childhood to the adult world. | An eight-year-old girl wrote this, as a beginning to her book (which was modelled on 19th-century literature for children). Do you consider it advanced for her age? |
| 24 | Really, confetti? How so? I'm a bit puzzled that after I humored you and expanded at length on my original comment, your only response is to label my explanation "ridiculous". You give no reason why. Oh, I see... you must have written this yourself and are offended by the suggestion that you weren't "advanced" for your age. | An eight-year-old girl wrote this, as a beginning to her book (which was modelled on 19th-century literature for children). Do you consider it advanced for her age? |
| 25 | Um, yes, confetti, a 12-year-old child who could write engagingly about humorous scenes of family life that she perceived herself instead of copied might be "advanced" (I hate that word). I would say this falls under perceptions about their environment that are astonishingly fresh. I think you're purposefully trying to misrepresent my position so you can argue with it. Please do not ask me to clarify a statement in the future. Whatever I had said, you would argue with me because you wanted people to praise your writing. You were never interested in any whys or wherefores. | An eight-year-old girl wrote this, as a beginning to her book (which was modelled on 19th-century literature for children). Do you consider it advanced for her age? |
| 26 | confetti, either you are willfully misrepresenting my argument, or you're not reading the response you claimed to want. After my taking time out *at your request* to elaborate, this is especially irksome. AGAIN, I think a child who writes about real people they know CAN be "advanced" if they are expressing actual perceptions about those people. NOT if they are simply regurgitating what's been fed to them. This is true of anyone, of whatever age - if they have no spark of original perception, I don't think of them as "advanced". If an 8-year old rather than an adult wrote this sample, I think it is especially depressing, because someone of that age should not yet have experienced the many years of traditional schooling that generally kills much of a child's imaginative and PERCEPTIVE spirit, and they should not have had time to get into ruts and "must-be"s. | An eight-year-old girl wrote this, as a beginning to her book (which was modelled on 19th-century literature for children). Do you consider it advanced for her age? |
| 27 | I wouldn't define some of these as terrorist groups. | Which of these terrorist groups do you sympathise with? |
| 28 | Just no. | Would you say you believe in ghosts? |
| 29 | Probably an unemployed person. | What will you be dressing up as for Halloween this year? |
| 30 | Survey questions with answer options. | What turns you on? |
