I get your point, but "binary" isn't really a word that most 8 year olds hear on a regular basis. They probably heard it, but didn't recognize it and remembered "berry" instead since it's something they do know.
I came home one day from preschool (which was in a church) saying Jesus came out of a tube. Apparently the teacher had shown the word tomb and I kept the B.
Yeah that's totally possible just saying that it also just be a speech impediment, also very common for kids to be unable to pronounce certain letters. But might be a missreading like you said.
can confirm. I am ESL and i used to read “appear” as “papa pear” for the longest time. My age was also about the same. I had never heard of appear before that so this is what my brain came up with.
I know I, and a lot of kids, called the library “lie-berry” up until and even sometimes beyond, middle school years. I don’t think it’s entirely unbelievable, kids don’t know how to pronounce things that they haven’t seen before, and try to make do by relating it to words they do know. An 8 year old probably doesn’t know what binary means or how it’s pronounced, but notices some of the letters are similar to berry, which they can pronounce. Get as close as you can, and people get the gist of the words you’re saying, and eventually you’ll get corrected into it proper.
My nine year old thought Veteran’s Day was a day to celebrate vegetarians. Kids hear a new word and will sometimes conflate it with a word or combination of words they are more familiar with.
And I thought the kid was getting confused about deadnames and then saying we all like ghosts. This infographic really does say we all like ghosts, lol.
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u/BlommeHolm 12d ago
A few posts down in the Bluesky thread, the OOOP has found the book the kid got it from.
https://bsky.app/profile/mrose.ink/post/3lkre7cg35c2l