Cindy Smart Knows Better Than To Say Naughty Words

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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Am I the only

[The Old Burke]

... one that think that this is stupid?
Why can't we let the children be children while they are still young? Do they need all this tech?
Most girls would be satidfied with a old fashion doll without all this hihg-tech stuff.
So someone please think of the childre instead of trying to earn a buck by trciking innocent parents into buying these items.

Re:And Slashdot is offended by this why?

[Lumpy]

first off I can tell that you are not a parent.

My 11 year old daughter knows that there is "naqughty words" out there. but she also knows that using them is a sign of low overall IQ or just merely the fact that the person spouting them has run out of smart things to say.

Profanity in it's self is truely the last resort of a person that is at the limit of their mential abilities. It can be brough on by simply smashing your thumb with a hammer.. I've done that. but lately it's just because the user is typically a very dim person. Take the guy that walks around the local store with the "FUCK" hat and the "eat shot" t-shirt. Is he making a statment? nahh, he's just one of these people that simply have not matured enough to get past the "swear words are cool" phase that the rest of us got through at age 8-10.

It's overall called teaching manners. something that Americans are massively missing and getting worse every day.

And yes, I have slipped into the low-IQ bin with no manners at times, mostly in traffic. we all are guilty of that. but the person that has enough self control to NOT use profanity is a person that will go farther in live, have much more respect from others around them, and have much more pride in themselves.

So yes, teaching kids that it is NOT normal to spout profanity is a good thing.