• thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    this whole exercise is really meant to exist in schools. like, schools for young kids.

    we’re adults arguing about which nursery rhyme is cooler while forgetting that this isn’t for us. it needs to be easily understood by children. that’s why we use one with only short easy words.

    even the sentence structure of the second one is complicated and hard for a child to remember.