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Is Timidity Even a Word? · I Hate Talking

• 0:29
  I Hate Talking: Welcome to episode 79 of I Hate Talking.
• 0:33
  I Hate Talking: Hi everyone.
• 0:34
  I Hate Talking: So we have a choice between two words.
• 0:37
  I Hate Talking: I guess we'll probably go with the word that came up in conversation, in fact, this very evening.
• 0:41
  I Hate Talking: Timidity.
• 0:43
  I Hate Talking: OK.
• 0:44
  I Hate Talking: Cause it's not a real word, right?
• 0:48
  I Hate Talking: I, I don't think it's a word.
• 0:50
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 0:50
  I Hate Talking: We'll find out.
• 0:51
  I Hate Talking: I've never encountered the word before until this particular experience.
• 0:57
  I Hate Talking: Obviously I've heard of the word timid, but not the word timidity, right, timid.
• 1:04
  I Hate Talking: Oh yeah, Timothy, she sounds like Timothy.
• 1:07
  I Hate Talking: I suppose so.
• 1:09
  I Hate Talking: Now, I think probably most people do use the root word timid, which would also be the root word in like intimidate and things of that nature, but you, our listeners will have to let us know if you've ever heard the word timidity up until this point.
• 1:23
  I Hate Talking: But if you're listening right now, now you have, right.
• 1:26
  I Hate Talking: So let's look up first the definition, if we can find it, because we're not sure if this is actually a word or not.
• 1:35
  I Hate Talking: OK, while you're looking it up, I'll say that this is something that we were given a a photo of, and it's like a scripture and it has that word in it, but it has a lot of designs and characters, and next to it is a stick that you're shaking.
• 1:51
  I Hate Talking: So then when you mentioned, I don't think that's the word.
• 1:54
  I Hate Talking: I was like, well, is it intimidity, cause maybe the stick figure is supposed to be like an eye, like you said, intimid, intimidity, you're like, I don't think that's even better.
• 2:03
  I Hate Talking: I was like, yeah.
• 2:04
  I Hate Talking: I guess not, but I wasn't sure if it was intimidity or just timidity.
• 2:10
  I Hate Talking: That both sounded wrong to me.
• 2:12
  I Hate Talking: Yes, and that particular scripture is 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 7, which I guess we found that that particular photo is using the NLT or New Living Translation.
• 2:28
  I Hate Talking: Yes, I believe so, because we had to look it up.
• 2:31
  I Hate Talking: But that is the translation, that word that comes up in it.
• 2:35
  I Hate Talking: So our favorite Oxford language dictionary does have this listed as a word, timidity, and it defines it as lack of courage or confidence.
• 2:48
  I Hate Talking: So using it in a sentence, the example sentence given is she believes everyone can overcome their timidity.
• 2:56
  I Hate Talking: I would use the word timidness in that particular sentence, not timidity.
• 3:02
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, for the usage over time, it apparently was very popular in the 1800s and then had a steady decline over that century and now is not used very much, but it has had a very slight uptick starting in 2019.
• 3:21
  I Hate Talking: And more people started reading that translation of the Bible.
• 3:24
  I Hate Talking: Perhaps so.
• 3:26
  I Hate Talking: So, but I agree because I'd say like the sentence, I had a lot of timidness.
• 3:32
  I Hate Talking: No, I was very timid and I'd say I'm very timid.
• 3:35
  I Hate Talking: I'm trying to think of how to use it, but can you look up timidness sounds better.
• 3:41
  I Hate Talking: It sounds more accurate to me.
• 3:43
  I Hate Talking: Is that a word?
• 3:44
  I Hate Talking: Are they the same?
• 3:46
  I Hate Talking: So according to AI, timidity is actually more common and established term for the quality of being easily frightened, lacking in confidence, or fearful, and it does say timidness is also a valid word, and it says, quote, often considered a synonym or less common variation of timidity, but not in my experience at all.
• 4:09
  I Hate Talking: No, I would think someone misspoke if they said that word to me.
• 4:14
  I Hate Talking: I wouldn't think much of it, cause, as everyone knows that listens to me, I misspeak all the time.
• 4:20
  I Hate Talking: So I would not think anything like poor of them, but I would think it was like a stutter type mispronunciation.
• 4:29
  I Hate Talking: And I don't even know if I heard that word that I would associate it with the word timid unless it was by context when they were speaking about something that maybe would be fearful or some particular hard situation.
• 4:43
  I Hate Talking: So for our etymology, it is a Latin word.
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  I Hate Talking: It comes from timidus.
• 4:51
  I Hate Talking: Or Tidus, I suppose.
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  I Hate Talking: And that originally came even before that from Tamir, which means to fear.
• 5:01
  I Hate Talking: So basically if you are timid or you have the quality of timidness or you have a particular outlook of timidity that you may be fearful, especially of the unknown or not knowing what to do according to this vocabulary.com.
• 5:23
  I Hate Talking: Website that lists out some of the etymology.
• 5:26
  I Hate Talking: OK, can I just say, I really enjoy that the word Timothy is in the book of Timothy.
• 5:34
  I Hate Talking: But on that note, like, is Timothy or Tim?
• 5:38
  I Hate Talking: Does the meaning of that name mean timid or mean afraid?
• 5:43
  I Hate Talking: To all you Tim's out there, I really like the name Timothy, but I've never looked up what what the meaning is.
• 5:49
  I Hate Talking: So, according to some baby naming websites, The literal meaning of Timothy means God's honor, and that would have come about because of Timotheos, so honoring God, that root word Theos there, and I guess Timo meaning honor.
• 6:08
  I Hate Talking: It's interesting that that means honor when Timmady means fear.
• 6:15
  I Hate Talking: I suppose so.
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  I Hate Talking: Some perhaps very similar root words, but very slight variations that have very different meanings.
• 6:24
  I Hate Talking: So now we know the word timidity is a real word.
• 6:28
  I Hate Talking: We know the definition, the etymology, and supposedly the fact that it's more common than timidness, -- but maybe it -- is.
• 6:34
  I Hate Talking: Maybe you and I are out on our own little island over here.
• 6:37
  I Hate Talking: But do you think you're gonna start using the word?
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  I Hate Talking: No, I don't think I use the word timid or timidness very much.
• 6:45
  I Hate Talking: I think I do.
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  I Hate Talking: Like when I talk to people, I feel like I was very timid.
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  I Hate Talking: And things like, I'll say words like that.
• 6:54
  I Hate Talking: He's a timid kid.
• 6:55
  I Hate Talking: We have a timid kid.
• 6:56
  I Hate Talking: I suppose so.
• 6:58
  I Hate Talking: The version that I learned, King James Version, would have been Spirit of fear, which is Not all that dissimilar to what is being described with Timothy.
• 7:10
  I Hate Talking: And actually maybe is a little bit more nuanced.
• 7:13
  I Hate Talking: I don't know if that was what the original authors in the Greek were going for, but Timidity being that specific fear of the unknown or not knowing what to do.
• 7:24
  I Hate Talking: Right?
• 7:24
  I Hate Talking: Well, obviously I'm not a Greek expert and I don't know what they mean, but yes, I learned it as a spirit of fear also, we do not have a spirit of fear, and I like that better.
• 7:34
  I Hate Talking: Maybe it's just because that's how I'm programmed and conditioned.
• 7:37
  I Hate Talking: But I like the idea of, it's not saying you're never afraid, because sometimes there are good reasons to be afraid.
• 7:44
  I Hate Talking: If a bus is coming at you, you need to be afraid and get out of the way, you know, but it's the spirit, the constant fear that we don't need to have.
• 7:52
  I Hate Talking: That's very true.
• 7:54
  I Hate Talking: Now it's interesting to note as I'm searching for what the Greek word is.
• 8:02
  I Hate Talking: That the AI brings in some references from the Institute for Creation Research, Crosswalk.com, and Bible Hub that describe the Greek word used in the phrase spirit of fear as Delia, which means cowardice, Tiddy or shrinking back.
• 8:23
  I Hate Talking: You have the concordance right next to you.
• 8:26
  I Hate Talking: You should look it up, Timothy.
• 8:27
  I Hate Talking: It's not gonna be in there because it's not in the King James.
• 8:31
  I Hate Talking: Well, we can check.
• 8:34
  I Hate Talking: We'll double check.
• 8:34
  I Hate Talking: I'm sure timid is, maybe, maybe not.
• 8:37
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 8:37
  I Hate Talking: We'll find out.
• 8:38
  I Hate Talking: This is all fun research that is happening real time, at least for us.
• 8:43
  I Hate Talking: You're getting to listen to it after the fact, but we are doing this on the fly.
• 8:47
  I Hate Talking: So there are a lot of words in the Bible apparently.
• 8:52
  I Hate Talking: But it does not appear that timid or timidity is in the strongest concordance because it goes directly from times to Timna, which is a name, not a word.
• 9:05
  I Hate Talking: So no timid, no timidity, no timidness in the strongest concordance.
• 9:11
  I Hate Talking: Now I'm curious if it's in our 1828.
• 9:15
  I Hate Talking: Merriam-Webster's dictionary, which I guess it would be because of the popularity during the 1800s that we saw in the usage over time.
• 9:22
  I Hate Talking: Well, let's find out is AI right?
• 9:24
  I Hate Talking: I don't see how AI is correct because I've never heard this word before, Timidity, until this particular experience with this photo that has the NLT version Bible verse in it.
• 9:37
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 9:39
  I Hate Talking: So I disagree with AI that this is more common than timidness.
• 9:42
  I Hate Talking: And that it's common at all, but -- let's check the 1828 Merriam-Webster's -- it.
• 9:49
  I Hate Talking: I don't think it's uncommon to disagree with AI.
• 9:52
  I Hate Talking: That's not a novel concept.
• 9:56
  I Hate Talking: Today, I was, my one of my children was teaching me how to use AI to generate a cartoon photo.
• 10:04
  I Hate Talking: And it was actually pretty fun.
• 10:05
  I Hate Talking: I was enjoying it and learning a lot from him, but I was doing a cartoon of a person with a veins.
• 10:13
  I Hate Talking: I did not want them to have veins, and they kept giving them veins for their hair.
• 10:16
  I Hate Talking: And so I said, remove the veins in one prompt and it removed their entire head.
• 10:22
  I Hate Talking: It was a headless person.
• 10:23
  I Hate Talking: And then, so then I said revert back to original photo, and they were like, I'm sorry, I misunderstood your request.
• 10:33
  I Hate Talking: OK, so AI is not all knowing, in the true sense.
• 10:39
  I Hate Talking: So the Merriam-Webster's 1828 dictionary has timid and timidness, but in the definition of timidness, it says refer to timidity.
• 10:52
  I Hate Talking: So it says here, the definition of timidity is quote, fearfulness, want of courage or boldness to face danger, habitual cowardice.
• 11:04
  I Hate Talking: Timidity in one person may be a good trait of character while in another is a deep reproach.
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  I Hate Talking: Hm OK, well, there you go.
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  I Hate Talking: So, an interesting dive into the word Timmody from that particular experience with that Bible verse, and you, our listeners can let us know, leave a comment, send us an email, send us a text, let us know if you have ever heard of the word Timidity or not.
• 11:30
  I Hate Talking: Because we have not till now, but now you have as well, one way or the other.
• 11:38
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, so we don't have any intimidity about asking if we were wrong, right?
• 11:43
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, see, I would have used the word timidness or another word altogether.
• 11:49
  I Hate Talking: I'm not intimidated is what I would say.
• 11:52
  I Hate Talking: They're not intimidated to using the negative timid.
• 11:57
  I Hate Talking: So essentially using a double negative rather than intimidate, yeah, I guess what I'm getting at is that it's not a double negative.
• 12:06
  I Hate Talking: I would use a positive term that we're bold enough to ask.
• 12:11
  I Hate Talking: I guess that makes me feel uncomfortable.
• 12:14
  I Hate Talking: You would rather use a double negatives and say you're -- not apprehensive or you're not -- timid or you're not unafraid.
• 12:24
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, it sounds nicer saying I'm bold.
• 12:26
  I Hate Talking: Like I just, that sounds haughty or full of yourself or confident.
• 12:32
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I don't like confidence.
• 12:34
  I Hate Talking: Well then, perhaps you have too much timidity.
• 12:38
  I Hate Talking: Maybe, or everyone else in the world, so many people have too much confidence, overconfidence.
• 12:44
  I Hate Talking: Well, I suppose so, but now we can be confident in using the word timidity.
• 12:51
  I Hate Talking: As a real word.
• 12:53
  I Hate Talking: I'll still be intimid using it though.
• 12:58
  I Hate Talking: Intimidated, intimidated.
• 13:00
  I Hate Talking: Oh, it's all complicated.
• 13:03
  I Hate Talking: That's English for you.
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  I Hate Talking: So that is our word, Timothy.
• 13:09
  I Hate Talking: And now I suppose we will move on to any other particular topics that we have on our minds at this time.
• 13:17
  I Hate Talking: Mhm.
• 13:18
  I Hate Talking: Well, it reminds me when you're saying like that's English for you.
• 13:21
  I Hate Talking: I was having a conversation with my children and their chiropractor the other day, and we were reflecting on when our oldest, I was teaching our oldest to learn how to read.
• 13:33
  I Hate Talking: And he would fight me all the time because he was convinced the letter C.
• 13:39
  I Hate Talking: Was useless.
• 13:41
  I Hate Talking: And I didn't really have a good argument for why we have to learn the letter C.
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  I Hate Talking: When he'd spell, he would intentionally, if it was a hard C.
• 13:50
  I Hate Talking: He would do a K, soft C, he would do an S, and I'd be like, no, it's actually a C, and I try to correct him, cause, you know, mistakes happen, that's confusing, but it was intentional.
• 14:01
  I Hate Talking: He'd be like, no, and he'd argue with me on why this is better or more accurate.
• 14:07
  I Hate Talking: So we were telling the chiropractor that he still stands by that stance, but he also is older now and understands that he alone cannot change the English language and concedes to doing it the way we do.
• 14:24
  I Hate Talking: But our chiropractor is talking about like, you need to get these kids in debate, because they're very good at debating, and they can have a career in it or could flourish.
• 14:36
  I Hate Talking: And so I have not yet, but I've been thinking about maybe looking up local children's debate groups.
• 14:43
  I Hate Talking: I don't know, what do you think of that?
• 14:44
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I think it could be interesting.
• 14:47
  I Hate Talking: I tried that as a child and didn't necessarily enjoy it.
• 14:53
  I Hate Talking: Debating or changing the letter C.
• 14:55
  I Hate Talking: Well, both actually, no, debating because even within debate there was like rules that you had to follow and certain things that you had to do and not only just the things that you had to do from like the procedural perspective where you had like 5 minutes and then 2 minutes and then 2 minutes and then 3 minutes in terms of the back and forth, but even like certain ways that you had to speak or stay on topic and things like that.
• 15:25
  I Hate Talking: I did learn a lot about particular logical fallacies like ad hominem attacks and things like that that were, I think useful, but You still had to have a lot of rules around the debate, which to me felt a little bit counterintuitive.
• 15:43
  I Hate Talking: Like if you're going to debate somebody, then everything should be allowed.
• 15:47
  I Hate Talking: Hm, what do you mean by that?
• 15:50
  I Hate Talking: Like you can commit logical fallacies all day long.
• 15:54
  I Hate Talking: And I guess the point was that like, if somebody that you're debating knew these particular logical fallacies that they would point you out and then you would lose the debate.
• 16:04
  I Hate Talking: But I don't think that's how it works in real life, so I didn't feel like debate was a realistic representation of argumentation in real life.
• 16:15
  I Hate Talking: So in debates, do you think you can lie?
• 16:17
  I Hate Talking: Can you lie?
• 16:20
  I Hate Talking: Yes, you can lie.
• 16:21
  I Hate Talking: Should you lie?
• 16:22
  I Hate Talking: No, probably not.
• 16:23
  I Hate Talking: Well, you're just saying that everything should be allowed, so I was just trying to say like.
• 16:26
  I Hate Talking: Even, you know, you were saying that they should be able to prove you wrong, but what if I even said something like, as we're debating and I say for breakfast, I had a waffle.
• 16:38
  I Hate Talking: You weren't here at breakfast, so you don't know if I did or not.
• 16:42
  I Hate Talking: There's really no way to prove me wrong.
• 16:44
  I Hate Talking: But I didn't.
• 16:46
  I Hate Talking: That was a lie.
• 16:47
  I Hate Talking: Well, that's why you have your fact checkers in the background, but no one could fact check that.
• 16:53
  I Hate Talking: No one saw me eat breakfast, I suppose.
• 16:55
  I Hate Talking: So I was up before.
• 16:57
  I Hate Talking: I don't really know what the waffles have to do with the bigger topic in the debate.
• 17:00
  I Hate Talking: I don't know.
• 17:01
  I Hate Talking: Maybe in the debate there was it had a point, and I was trying to divert you to something else.
• 17:06
  I Hate Talking: Best breakfast foods and you're on the waffle side and you're lying that you ate a waffle as a support to the fact that waffles are the best.
• 17:14
  I Hate Talking: I am on a waffle.
• 17:15
  I Hate Talking: I'll eat a waffle every day over a pancake, no questions asked.
• 17:20
  I Hate Talking: I do enjoy a good waffle, but if I had to choose one over the other for the rest of my life, it would definitively be a pancake.
• 17:26
  I Hate Talking: No, I know, I know you think that, and you're wrong.
• 17:30
  I Hate Talking: Well, there you go, we can have our own pancake and waffle debate.
• 17:33
  I Hate Talking: Let us know if you like pancakes or waffles because they're the same, but a waffle crunchier and it gives you that extra sensation of that crunch you need in the morning.
• 17:45
  I Hate Talking: Well, the waffles that I enjoy are not crunchy.
• 17:47
  I Hate Talking: They're like the home style cooked ones that are sort of more like just a pancake in a waffle shape.
• 17:53
  I Hate Talking: Exactly, it's just the same pancake then.
• 17:56
  I Hate Talking: No, the waffle, it's nice and crunchy, and it holds the little syrup and butter in just perfect little bite size treats.
• 18:05
  I Hate Talking: Which is odd because I enjoy the crunchy Chips Ahoy, and you like the chewy ones, which I find disgusting.
• 18:12
  I Hate Talking: I don't know why you think that, cause again, I, I like both.
• 18:15
  I Hate Talking: The blue wrapper crunchy ones or the red wrapper soft, but I do love, oh man, it's so good that soft when you just put in your mouth and it just all melts in there.
• 18:25
  I Hate Talking: Mhm.
• 18:25
  I Hate Talking: Maybe I like crunchy desserts and soft foods.
• 18:29
  I Hate Talking: Maybe.
• 18:31
  I Hate Talking: What other crunchy desserts do you like?
• 18:33
  I Hate Talking: Oh, but I guess you do like crunchy cookies because you always, I like the really soft, chewy cookies.
• 18:39
  I Hate Talking: This week I made chocolate chip cookies and I intentionally bring some less cooked for me and then cook them longer for you.
• 18:48
  I Hate Talking: That's true, and that's true for all cookies that I like, sandies and the shortbread cookies, they are all very firm and crunchy.
• 18:55
  I Hate Talking: Hm, I wonder, -- I don't think -- I hard candies, I'll typically like.
• 19:01
  I Hate Talking: Hard candies like peppermint sticks or something like that versus a Chewy type confection.
• 19:09
  I Hate Talking: But I don't like chewy, I like the soft, like melt chocolate that melts in your mouth, ice cream.
• 19:16
  I Hate Talking: Yeah, I think every dessert I love.
• 19:19
  I Hate Talking: It's very soft and almost dissolvable.
• 19:23
  I Hate Talking: Some of my favorite ice creams have crunchy bits in them, like chocolate chips or chocolate covered peanuts or things of that nature.
• 19:32
  I Hate Talking: Hm.
• 19:33
  I Hate Talking: I don't dislike those, but I love all ice cream, but no, I prefer like butter pecan.
• 19:39
  I Hate Talking: The only particular crunchy food that I like as a food is probably potato chips.
• 19:46
  I Hate Talking: And corn chips to some degree, things that are fried.
• 19:50
  I Hate Talking: But see, I like all, I like all my other food crunchy.
• 19:54
  I Hate Talking: My life turned around in elementary school, when my friend taught me that you could put chips in your sandwich.
• 20:01
  I Hate Talking: To make it crunchy And I will forever remember being shocked and amazed, and like forever, like my life has changed.
• 20:10
  I Hate Talking: I can put these potato chips in here and have that crunch I want.
• 20:14
  I Hate Talking: No, see, I don't think I like crunchy sandwiches, maybe a tiny bit of like toasted bread, crunchy bacon to some degree, but it can't be like super crunchy, even.
• 20:26
  I Hate Talking: I think that's why in the history, when we go back and forth between being keto diet, some kind of thing, I have a hard time because I miss that crunch.
• 20:38
  I Hate Talking: I'll often have to cook bacon or something to add it to my food.
• 20:43
  I Hate Talking: To provide that crunch I need.
• 20:45
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 20:47
  I Hate Talking: Occasionally on keto, I'll miss potato chips, but sometimes pork rinds will fit that need.
• 20:53
  I Hate Talking: I hate pork rinds, they're so gross.
• 20:55
  I Hate Talking: And then I think really the only use of the letter C.
• 21:00
  I Hate Talking: Is for the CH sound, right.
• 21:02
  I Hate Talking: Right, which can be used at the beginning of the word such as chuck or at the end of the word like much, but in terms of words like sight.
• 21:17
  I Hate Talking: You could use theoretically the letters or in the words of sight is with us.
• 21:25
  I Hate Talking: No, it's not.
• 21:26
  I Hate Talking: Oh, like site, like I'm citing, uh, I see.
• 21:33
  I Hate Talking: I was like site as vision.
• 21:35
  I Hate Talking: You're saying site like site your resources.
• 21:37
  I Hate Talking: Correct.
• 21:38
  I Hate Talking: We cited the Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Strongest Concordance and Oxford Language Dictionary.
• 21:43
  I Hate Talking: -- Those are things -- that we cited.
• 21:45
  I Hate Talking: So what do we say then, because I fully agree with you, and I gave these arguments to a five year old kindergartner a long time ago and He just brought back, we'll just make the sea, make the chest sound then.
• 21:59
  I Hate Talking: Well, I think that's how it used to be.
• 22:01
  I Hate Talking: I think the C was only the just sound in very olden times.
• 22:05
  I Hate Talking: So what do you say when you actually agree with someone?
• 22:08
  I Hate Talking: But Also, so basically in that stance, I had to just throw up my hands and say, you're right, I agree with you.
• 22:16
  I Hate Talking: But in society, this is how we do it and that's what you have to do because this is a society we live in.
• 22:23
  I Hate Talking: So what do you do, Adam, when you disagree with someone or you're trying to convince them of something and they disagree with you?
• 22:30
  I Hate Talking: But once again, this is just the society we live in.
• 22:34
  I Hate Talking: We cannot rewrite every book and every word in the US.
• 22:40
  I Hate Talking: So, yeah, I think there could be some sort of perhaps shared.
• 22:46
  I Hate Talking: Empathy in terms of the situation that we find ourselves in if we are disagreeing about something that is done or the way certain things are performed.
• 22:57
  I Hate Talking: That it is sort of just the way it is and you sort of have to resign yourself to that.
• 23:03
  I Hate Talking: I'd also perhaps suggest some alternatives.
• 23:06
  I Hate Talking: So I don't think Russian, the language, has as much of this particular problem because they will typically use a lot of S's and K's and not so many C's because of this very pronunciation thing.
• 23:21
  I Hate Talking: So you could go learn Russian if you don't want to have to deal with all the odd uses of C within the English language.
• 23:29
  I Hate Talking: And I guess You could also probably do the same for a lot of Asian languages.
• 23:36
  I Hate Talking: Where they're going to have a completely different alphabet and therefore not really have this particular issue either.
• 23:44
  I Hate Talking: OK, yeah, I buy that.
• 23:46
  I Hate Talking: But also you can't tell a 5 year old will go move across the ocean.
• 23:50
  I Hate Talking: No, I'm not saying that.
• 23:52
  I Hate Talking: I'm saying just learn Russian and then you speak Russian and read Russian.
• 23:57
  I Hate Talking: I really hate the sea that much.
• 24:00
  I Hate Talking: So we did start, uh, like I said, this conversation rekindled in my memory as we were talking to the chiropractor because our kids love to debate him on stuff, and I think he definitely enjoys it also.
• 24:13
  I Hate Talking: So they have a fun time together.
• 24:16
  I Hate Talking: And I was telling him that I'm thankful actually that this is my first child.
• 24:21
  I Hate Talking: The first time I taught anyone to read, because I was so overwhelmed at that point cause I was like, I don't know what to do, cause you're right, but this is society, and like teaching's way harder than I thought if you're going to fight me on things like this.
• 24:37
  I Hate Talking: Luckily, all my other kids I had better answers for, and also none of them are so strict and particular that it was easier to teach them.
• 24:49
  I Hate Talking: We almost have everyone in our house is almost a reader.
• 24:54
  I Hate Talking: Our littlest now goes around and he starts, he's at that really fun stage where he starts reading everything he sees.
• 25:03
  I Hate Talking: And sometimes they're like, oh, don't read that.
• 25:05
  I Hate Talking: Don't, you don't need to read that.
• 25:07
  I Hate Talking: It's OK.
• 25:08
  I Hate Talking: So that's a fun age and it's really fun that we have a house full of readers now.
• 25:12
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 25:14
  I Hate Talking: So, I mean, that is part of what we cover in this podcast is some of the idiosyncrasies of the English language, so.
• 25:24
  I Hate Talking: And that is in fact is the child that requested we do the word Timothy for our episode.
• 25:30
  I Hate Talking: It doesn't surprise me.
• 25:31
  I Hate Talking: I think because he was arguing, right, not to learn that scripture.
• 25:36
  I Hate Talking: And you also, if we're going back to that word, wanted to teach them the other way, right?
• 25:42
  I Hate Talking: Do you want to explain why I said we have to learn it this way?
• 25:46
  I Hate Talking: I suppose so, and that will probably be our final topic for this episode is that I did recommend that we learn it in the King James or at least the SV as more standard language in my opinion, apparently not AI's opinion, but that we learn the spirit of fear phrase rather than the spirit of timidity phrase.
• 26:09
  I Hate Talking: But it was something that we had to resign ourselves to because the larger group was learning it in this particular version and we needed to align for the memorization sake as well as just particular alignment with the group.
• 26:25
  I Hate Talking: Right, so the kids will have to say this in a group, they can't learn a different version that says different words cause then when they're all saying it together, they're not gonna line up with it.
• 26:36
  I Hate Talking: And so they need to learn it that way, just like how sometimes we have to use the C for the or sound, even though we have very good appropriate letters that would cover that.
• 26:50
  I Hate Talking: I suppose so.
• 26:52
  I Hate Talking: And then once you learn all these things, you need not have a spirit of timidity when using the English language.
• 26:59
  I Hate Talking: I guess not.
• 27:00
  I Hate Talking: So you, our listener, need not have a spirit of timidity either.
• 27:05
  I Hate Talking: You can always like, share and subscribe and be bold and confident in sharing this with just one other person if you think they would enjoy this particular episode.
• 27:17
  I Hate Talking: Or you don't have to be intimidated to share this and tell the people that you enjoy listening and you're learning something.
• 27:25
  I Hate Talking: Cause I don't like being bold about telling people about the podcast, but I'm getting better at not being intimidated about telling them.
• 27:33
  I Hate Talking: That's true.
• 27:36
  I Hate Talking: We are all on the journey to understanding.
• 27:39
  I Hate Talking: Yeah.
• 27:40
  I Hate Talking: So, from your friends at I Hate Talking, until next time, remember, it is only through talking that we begin the journey to understanding.