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[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 33 points 5 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Berko_Gleason

Gleason devised the Wug Test as part of her earliest research (1958), which used nonsense words to gauge children's acquisition of morphological rules‍—‌for example, the "default" rule that most English plurals are formed by adding an /s/, /z/, or /ɪz/ sound depending on the final consonant, e.g. hat–hats, eye–eyes, witch–witches. A child is shown simple pictures of a fanciful creature or activity, with a nonsense name, and prompted to complete a statement about it

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Okay but what's the joke?

[-] azertyfun@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

I don't think there is one beyond "hey look we all know this thing".

Americans: "We are a diverse patchwork of cultures and saying the US is one gigantic boring monoculture just because we share a common language is offensive"

Also Americans: hundreds of millions of people literally all relate to the same quirky element of childhood imposed through immense conformist institutions, can't even process the idea that other cultures exist that do not relate to this specific element.