• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Unless they have a father with a PhD in English who acts like an English teacher with them their whole childhood.

    I loved my dad, but boy did it suck when I showed him some piece of creative writing I wrote and he got out the red pen.

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        9 months ago

        He could always find something.

        But also, if I ever pronounced something incorrectly or used improper grammar, I would be swiftly corrected. It’s really hard not to do the same with my own kid.