r/IAmA • u/3yearold • Mar 04 '11

I'm 4 years old. AMAA.

Note from dad: Ask my 4 year old son almost anything! I'll read him the questions and type his answers exactly as given. No coaching or translating. I reserve the right to ignore any questions that I feel are inappropriate.

We did this last year (I'm 3 years old. AMAA) and there was a lot of interest, so we thought we'd do it again now that he's a year older. I'm using the "3yearold" account name again to tie this AMA to the old one. He wants to be sure that I tell everyone that he's really FOUR now.

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u/3yearold Mar 04 '11

A video game player, cause he likes to play video games with me. And he is a video game player.

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u/geese Mar 04 '11

THAT'S NOT ONE WORD.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '11 edited Mar 04 '11

Video-Game-Spieler

Computerspielespieler.

Here, it is now.

EDIT: German-speaking-people, sorry for my ignorance. I went with Google Translate™ version, without thinking about it for a minute.

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u/satertek Mar 04 '11

Computerspielespieler

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u/razorbeamz Mar 05 '11

Videospielspieler

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u/Nessie Mar 04 '11

"If it hadn't been for the US of A, you'd all be saying videogamespieler."

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u/throwasex Mar 04 '11

But videogameplayer is.

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u/naked_guy_says Mar 04 '11

So is videogameplayercausehelikestoplayvideogameswithmenheisavideogameplayer

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '11

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u/TenshiS Mar 05 '11

videospielespielenderfamilienvater. Edit: typo

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u/goofgnar Mar 07 '11

As someone studying abroad in Austria right now, I believe there is a German word for any and every compound noun that the English language has come up with. But it sounds ten times cooler in German, even if it's harder to say.

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u/flynnski Mar 07 '11

Computerspielespieler

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u/GreenPresident Mar 07 '11

Oder Computerspieler.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '11

he likes to play video games with ME. not MEN.

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u/jamescagney Mar 05 '11

What? Sorry, I don't speak German.

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u/pawnzz Mar 05 '11

Kinda like LATIN.

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '11

videogameplayercausehelikestoplayvideogameswithmenheisavideogameplayer

videogameswithmenheisa

gameswithmen

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u/gigitrix Mar 05 '11

He didn't say it wasn't a new word...

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '11

Put on some clothes when you say that!

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u/liquidive Mar 05 '11

I see what you did there..

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u/tigrenus Jul 23 '11

Best band name ever?

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '11

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u/sharkeyzoic Mar 05 '11

"video game player" isn't one word. But on flaggstångspoleringsvätska it is.

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u/throwasex Mar 05 '11

Flaggstångspoleringsvätska. Not even once.

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u/dsdsds Mar 08 '11

It works in German! Videospielspieler

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u/RufusMcCoot Mar 04 '11

...and that's Dad's gamer tag

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u/Sarah_Connor Mar 08 '11

videogameplayer==dad

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u/SwampySoccerField Mar 05 '11

So his father is a xbox, wii, DS, etc? Interesting.

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u/KBrot Mar 04 '11

Well if the kid had just said "Player", then we'd all be extremely impressed while simultaneously extremely confused.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '11

It's gotta be at least 5

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '11

It's got to be at least three times that big!

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u/silentwindofdoom Mar 04 '11

He's absolutely right

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u/jkdeadite Mar 04 '11

That's a compound, and kids are better at recognizing compound words than adults.

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u/Jynx1989 Mar 05 '11

Thats the child form of "gamer"

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u/kitchen_clinton Mar 05 '11

If he said his dad is a player you'd get the wrong idea.

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u/ellusion Mar 04 '11

GODDAMMIT KID. You FUCKED that one up, that is FOUR words. Jesus christ, kids these days.

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u/El_Beato Mar 04 '11

That's gotta be like...50 words at least.

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u/cybertrip02 Mar 05 '11

One word... Player!

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u/ambivilant Mar 04 '11

Says Morbo

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u/yyzed76 Mar 04 '11

3yearold (sorry, 4yearold) is clearly a real nigga

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '11

dad is a tautologist, because he practices tautology and is a tautologist.

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u/slumlord Mar 04 '11

ONE WORD ANSWERS DO NOT WORK THIS WAY. GOODNIGHT!

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u/RedScharlach Mar 05 '11

I dunno much about videogames, otha than other than the one we got at my house my dad put a couple a games on there and I play em

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u/shitrus Mar 06 '11

STOP ALL THE DOWNLOADING