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Cindy Smart Knows Better Than To Say Naughty Words

Posted by timothy on from the because-bland-has-five-letters dept.

D'Sphitz writes "Cindy Smart, the first doll in the world to be able to read, tell the time and do sums. Cindy Smart 'sees' via a camera located under a bee on her overalls and has a computer 'brain' that can recognise more than 600 words and objects, although she refuses to recite certain 4-letter words. 'We don't say those kind of words,' she shrills, refusing to even spell obscenities. 'That's a bad word.'" Sounds like a good candidate for a personality transplant.

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  1. Re:What's wrong with Germanic roots? by Fourier · · Score: 4, Informative

    The word "perogative" lost all its dignity when Will Smith explained it to the masses.

    The word prerogative lost all its dignity when everyone started pronouncing it "perogative". :-)

  2. Re:And Slashdot is offended by this why? by LordKronos · · Score: 4, Informative

    Please don't have kids. The truth is great and all, but the world needs fewer emotionally disturbed children. Children raise in the manner you describe almost always form a negative opinion of themself (how could they not), develop a low self-esteem, and become failures in life as part of some sick, self-fulfilling prophecy. So if that's the way you really think kids should be raised, I beg of you to do this world a favor and not have kids.