Hee! It's totally real, from a 1950s elementary reader called "Dick and Jane." It has some definite nostalgic value and often is re-released in hardcover versions. My dad (who used it in school) gave it to me as a joke, but LE really likes it, strangely enough. As a reader, it's pretty crap-- if you got through the whole thing you would have learned to read about 25 words-- it's all "See Dick run. Run Dick run. Run Run Run." My first grade reader in the 70s was actually quite similar, though it wasn't Dick and Jane and I remember a kid called Red in there. I remember it was boring as hell because I'd learned to read before I started kindergarten and it was so mind-numbing sitting and listening to the other kids stumble through it during reading time.
I wonder what Turkish readers are like? I kind of think LE will have the same one as his Dede, though perhaps with changed politics...
Titter titter.
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That's even funnier. Is it for real?
Hee! It's totally real, from a 1950s elementary reader called "Dick and Jane." It has some definite nostalgic value and often is re-released in hardcover versions. My dad (who used it in school) gave it to me as a joke, but LE really likes it, strangely enough. As a reader, it's pretty crap-- if you got through the whole thing you would have learned to read about 25 words-- it's all "See Dick run. Run Dick run. Run Run Run." My first grade reader in the 70s was actually quite similar, though it wasn't Dick and Jane and I remember a kid called Red in there. I remember it was boring as hell because I'd learned to read before I started kindergarten and it was so mind-numbing sitting and listening to the other kids stumble through it during reading time.
I wonder what Turkish readers are like? I kind of think LE will have the same one as his Dede, though perhaps with changed politics...
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