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Dodging or quacking

GoldFish14GoldFish14
edited November 2013 in The Walking Dead

Just a quick question from a non-native English speaker.
Can someone please spell it out for me? What did Lee mean by this question in S1E1?

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  • AraronAraron

    To be honest?I still don't know to this date.Was always kind of a "WTF" moment in the first episode.

  • PluXPluX

    He was asking about the little boy's name. His father calls him 'Duck'. The word duck has multiple meanings; Firstly a duck is an animal that makes a quacking sound, and duck could also mean to dodge (to make an avoiding motion). The father says the boy talks alot so they name him after the quacking animal, because 'quacking' also means to talk alot.

  • GoldFish14GoldFish14

    Thanks! That cleared it up. Totally forgot duck means to take cover too.

    PluX posted: »

    He was asking about the little boy's name. His father calls him 'Duck'. The word duck has multiple meanings; Firstly a duck is an animal that

  • AraronAraron

    Right,thanks for that.

    PluX posted: »

    He was asking about the little boy's name. His father calls him 'Duck'. The word duck has multiple meanings; Firstly a duck is an animal that

  • musdymusdy

    He's dumber than a bag of hammers, according to Kenny.

  • Pell3tPell3t

    Apparently op is too if they couldn't figure that out

    musdy posted: »

    He's dumber than a bag of hammers, according to Kenny.

  • raptorraptor

    Such a thing is not necessarily apparent to people whose native language is not English. A lot of words have multiple meanings, with each one having absolutely nothing to do with the next. I have several foreign friends who are unquestioningly intelligent but still get hung up sometimes trying to find the right English word to use, when for me it's pretty simple since it's my native language.

    Pell3t posted: »

    Apparently op is too if they couldn't figure that out

  • Pell3tPell3t
    edited November 2013

    honestly I was thinking i'd get a thumbs up for that comment since being nice on here gives you a thumbs down so I thought being a jackass would give me a thumbs up.

    raptor posted: »

    Such a thing is not necessarily apparent to people whose native language is not English. A lot of words have multiple meanings, with each one

  • GoldFish14GoldFish14

    Thanks for the apparent insult bruh.

    Pell3t posted: »

    Apparently op is too if they couldn't figure that out

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