The Bigger They Are: Toy Story 3, Toy Sentience, and the Word “The”
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Episode 116 of I Hate Talking digs into the word “the” and how it can function in comparative or conditional phrases like “the bigger they are, the harder they fall.” The hosts connect that grammar quirk to Old English roots and use it as a jumping-off point for a bigger conversation about how children learn language, including one memorable story about teaching a child to recognize the word “the” with repeated practice and a Nerf gun.
The episode then turns to Toy Story 3, which the hosts revisit as a much darker and more emotionally complex film than the first two. They…
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