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mamabrent December 9 2005, 04:44:23 UTC
related but not...

One of my students was asking me if I have a DVD player, cuz I think she wanted to lend me her copy of Charlotte's Web. She was asking me lots of questions about my DVD player, one of which was, "Does it play bootleggit?" She clearly doesn't know what "bootleggit" means, and it seemed that to her it was just some video format, like VHS, .WMV,... bootleggit.

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austybostybear December 9 2005, 06:53:42 UTC
Maybe she's talking about bootlegged videos? i.e. pirated videos?

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mamabrent December 9 2005, 07:29:20 UTC
Yes, that's exactly what she's talking about. But to her, it's just another type of video. She's 8. For all she knows "Bootleggit" is a brand name. She's just repeating what she hears, thinking nothing of copyright infringement.

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austybostybear December 9 2005, 16:48:52 UTC
Children say the darndest things! How is the whole teaching thing going, anyway?

P.S. are people going to see Jackie Beat tomorrow?

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