I was listening to some radio show and they had this bit on how as kids, sometimes we incorrectly learn something just obscure enough so that it goes by unchecked, all the way into adulthood.
A lot of their examples involved mispronunciations. For example, a woman (as a girl) saw the signs that said, "X-ing" on them. Children X-ing. Deer X-ing. Etc. And assumed that "X-ing" was a word. Pronounced "Zing". So she just assumed her whole life that this word existed until when she was about thirty, when she was driving somewhere with her husband, and some geese were crossing the road. And she was like, "You know, they should put a Geese Zing here." And he just looked at her and was like, "You know "zing" isn't a word right?"
Another included a girl who had "learned" unicorns were real from some fellow kid. And she took that into her adult life until she was about 34 when she was drinking with some friends at a bar and the topic was endangered species. And so she decided to add to the conversation by asking, "Are unicorns endangered?" Obviously, everybody laughed. But only b/c they thought she was joking. when they realized she wasn't, they laughed harder.
So I thought I'd start a thread (and this is going to be very embarrassing) to list some of our own "wrong truths" that we brought into adulthood.
I'll start with mine. Which I didn't find out I was wrong about until I was 28. I actually thought "New England" was a state. I coulda swore that it was wrapped up there in that group of the original 13 colonies and just went on my whole life thinking that. One day some friends and I were talking about east coast states, and I brought up "New England". Pretty embarrassing.
A lot of their examples involved mispronunciations. For example, a woman (as a girl) saw the signs that said, "X-ing" on them. Children X-ing. Deer X-ing. Etc. And assumed that "X-ing" was a word. Pronounced "Zing". So she just assumed her whole life that this word existed until when she was about thirty, when she was driving somewhere with her husband, and some geese were crossing the road. And she was like, "You know, they should put a Geese Zing here." And he just looked at her and was like, "You know "zing" isn't a word right?"
Another included a girl who had "learned" unicorns were real from some fellow kid. And she took that into her adult life until she was about 34 when she was drinking with some friends at a bar and the topic was endangered species. And so she decided to add to the conversation by asking, "Are unicorns endangered?" Obviously, everybody laughed. But only b/c they thought she was joking. when they realized she wasn't, they laughed harder.
So I thought I'd start a thread (and this is going to be very embarrassing) to list some of our own "wrong truths" that we brought into adulthood.
I'll start with mine. Which I didn't find out I was wrong about until I was 28. I actually thought "New England" was a state. I coulda swore that it was wrapped up there in that group of the original 13 colonies and just went on my whole life thinking that. One day some friends and I were talking about east coast states, and I brought up "New England". Pretty embarrassing.
