The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for January 29, 2020

At least she knows her prefixes.

Does anyone know what “indifferent” means. Yes Johnny?

It means “fantastic”, miss.

No it doesn’t Johnny.

Yes it does miss… Last night I was passing my parent’s bedroom door and I heard mum say “Oh, that’s fantastic”. and dad said “Yes, I’ve got it in different”.

A rather fluous answer.

Then you have hyperfluous, ultrafluous…

That answer is subjective, which is the same thing as jective only less so.

and now for something extra…

They are going in alphabetical order. Yesterday’s word was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.

Perfectly cromulent response from a child who thinks she thinks.

If that was my student I’d say, “good deduction, now can you tell us what fluous means in this context?” [I once had a student define isotope on a science quiz as “what you find on mountains”.]

Admittedly, those prefixes can be confusing to a child. I used to think “extraordinary” meant “really ordinary”.

Ain’t that superlative.