Parents Are Trolling Their Kids By Teaching Them Random Complex Words And The Stories Are Too Hilarious
What were your first words? Chances are it was mama or papa, and for parents, it’s always a favorite story to tell. But as toddlers start to develop their speech a little, some parents and family members like to have a little fun with them and teach them to say random things and complex words.
It all started when Dutch Tumblr user Marina, AKA theoceanempress shared her story about the time she taught her little cousin to say ‘tax benefits.’ “It was a hilarious sight to see a little funny toddler waddling around the house, wearing a big diaper, all the while yelling, “TAX BENEFITS!!!!” She said.
Cousin Lianne is now 15 years old, and the story still comes up at every family meeting. “The actual word I taught her was “belastingvoordeel,” Marina told Bored Panda. “And that’s the funny word that keeps getting shouted randomly.” But why this word? “There’s a Spongebob episode where Spongebob said that word to sound more grown-up, I think? I think in English, he said ‘tax exemption,’ but in the Dutch dub, he said ‘belastingvoordeel,’ which means tax benefits! So I thought it would be funny to teach it to my little cousin.”
People quickly jumped on the story to share hilarious examples of their own, as the post quickly went viral. Apparently trolling toddlers with hard words is a very popular thing to do. Teaching gnarly vocabulary is never a bad thing, however, and planting linguistic seeds into the fertile brains of the young smart kids may one day bear rich lyrical fruit!
Scroll down to check out some of the unexpected baby words for yourself and tell us, what are the funniest things you’ve heard come out of a toddler’s mouth? Let us know in the comments!
It all started when Tumblr user theoceanempress shared her story about the time she taught her little cousin to say ‘tax benefits’
Image credits: theoceanempress
People quickly jumped on the story to share hilarious examples of their own
Others were glad people shared such amazing stories and were sad they hadn’t thought of it sooner
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My mom never really cared about censoring herself around me. One day when I was 4 I was eating a hot dog at the beach and a seagull stole it so I screamed "WHAT THE F**K, B***H?!" Mom just started laughing hysterically...
I never censored myself much either. My daughter is almost 18 now and she swears around us, but not other adults. And my son is way more conservative at 13 then I am at 45 and wouldn't dream of uttering a bad word. So funny....
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I’m Brazilian, and somebody has taught my 7 year-old daughter to say “hipopotomonstrosesquipedaliofobia”, which is the Portuguese word for phobia of long words (kind of an irony). She’s been repeating that for years, just for fun.
We used to call the baby Mr. Fat Butt because he had a diaper on and it made his butt look fat. We thought it was funny. That was until the day he looked at me and said Fah butt to me. we stopped after that. Also it was like the first thing he learned after "Mama" so there's that.
Oh my god we has a similar name for my brother when he was a baby! I started calling him "Big Butt" when he was four months old because of the diaper-butt look. He's 22 now and I still call him big butt from time to time.
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I used to have a moderately severe stutter (still pops up on occasion, but rarely enough that hardly anyone knows) and big, complex words saved me. Can't get a short word out? Alternatively employ sequipedalian verbiage, enhancing conversation with synonyms of elaborate complexity which by chance bypass the stammer.
My dad taught my sister in Grade 1 to recite the title of his Masters' thesis in biochemistry. "The effects of trans,1-2,cyclopentanedicarboxylic acid on cell permeability". [For any chem nerds, this was before IUPAC nomenclature was invented].
I had a professor that taught her daughter how to say "Let there be light" in Latin and she would say it everytime she turned on the lights. XD
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When my brother was little, my grandmother and I taught him to say 'gluteus maximus'. He repeated the word wherever he went. One day when my mum picked him up from preschool the teacher couldn't stop laughing and said she was telling another child to sit down on their bottom. However, she only got to 'Charlie, sit on your...' before my brother screamed GLUTEUS MAXIMUS at the top of his voice.
I taught my four year old the lyrics to "Liar" by Henry Rollins. Nothing brightens your day than a little voice chanting, "Cause I'm a WIAR! Yeah! I'll rip your mind out, I'll burn your soul!"
Friends and I taught our kids to yell "Mojito" when jumping in the pool, and so have they done a week long. Next week, my son is going to the swimming pool with his class, can't wait for the teacher's debrief
This isn't quite as weird, but I used to walk around the house singing: "OLD YEELLLLEERR! COME BACK YELLLEEERR! BEST DOGGONE DOG IN THE WEST"
Turn off the TV and read to your children, then it won't be hilarious or weird that they use the English language with depth and alacrity. Sigh. I know I'll be down voted, but this actually is sad to see.
What's sad in it ? It's good to have fun when you're living life. Learn to take a joke.
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When I was a child I watched a Finnish movie about a family called Kiljunen. When my family visited London for some reason I started singing loudly the theme song of that movie that repeated the name Kiljunen many times and of course it sounded weird for the English speaking people because Kiljunen souded like "Kill You Nen". My mom had to explain to the British people that I did not want to kill anyone, I just liked one obscure Finnish movie very much. :D
To me, language acquisition by a child is one of the greatest mysteries in life. A child can go from: "Me tired."....."Want a drink."....to "I decided that I would rather have the fried rice tonight." in DAYS!!! How does that happen?
Friend of mine taught his nephew how to say "I've had enough of your sh**!" whenever the boy's mother told him to do anything. First time she heard it was priceless.
Apparently it was `deoxyribonucleic acid` for me. Decades later, I`m still fascinated by Biology. :)
My Gran taught me to say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious when I was 3. She also taught me to say "goodness gracious how audacious." I apparently would pull those two things out all the time.
When my best friend's daughter was 2, she was obsessed with my then boyfriend's computer and was constantly tapping away. I taught her how to say Michael Douglas and Wall Street. It was hilarious.
My sister is 5 and spent a good 3 years of her life talking in a British accent. We're from America, we don't until where she got it from.
Like when my nephew was "speaking" in French accent. We're an Italo-Croatian family. Nobody speaks French.
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I don't think my mother was very pleased when 4 or 5 year old me learned how to say "Shut up your mouth!" just like Boris Badanov from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
when i was 3 my stepdad taught me to "shuddup ya face" my mom found it hilarious but then again it was in my baby voice lol
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My son and I were waiting gon a t-shirt to come in the mail. Well, it took over a month and he looks and me and says"maybe you need to contact the proper administrative office about this"
When my daughter was 5 she informed me that she was voting for Obama because "Mitt Romney is a douchebag and suppresses women."
My daughter was always very fascinated with nature. She's been talking in full sentences since she was 16 months old (and hasn't stopped. She's 12 now) and I taught her to say "I'm a naturalist." At 16 months.
when I was 2 years old, every single time i saw one of those light up exit signs i would say perfectly clearly, "Exit!" people who heard was like :0 lol
When I was about 5 my favourite word was [German: Ausgerotted = Exterminated/made extinct]. I had no idea what it meant and had picked it up on the TV], I used it in the most stupid ways, like playing hairdresser or something and I would say 'no, this hairstyle is 'ausgerotted' [extinct/exterminated]. If someone listened to that they would have thought I was some weird kid. I remember that I just liked the sound of it. My parents laughed when they first heard me say it.
My daughter used "thrice" from age 2 and a half to 4, when she realized no other child around her used that word.
These are funny, but I don't like the one with the swearing. Parents shouldn't use that kind of language around their kids and they definitely shouldn't encourage it. That's just my opinion!
I taught my cousin to call my mom Anti instead of Aunt. It was pretty funny to hear Anti-insertmom'sname
My mom tells me that my big word was dismayed ("consternada" in our native spanish). Apparently I was ~dismayed~ when the lights went off at her practice and I learned it from 101 Dalmatians when Perdita knew about their puppies kidnapping </3
I never censored my language around my kids. When my daughter would swear I would just say, "That's a grown up word, don't say it, okay?" She would say "okay" and not say the same word again.
My daughter also had an Australian preschool teacher so at age 3 she referred to silverware as cutlery. "Mom, where is the cutlery?"
My brother is a History teacher and when our cousin's daughter was years old he trolled her asking "who do you prefer, Lenin or Stalin ?" She answered with perfect conviction and it was quite creepy hearing that cute little voice yelling "Staliiin !"
I taught "trinitrotuluene" to my 3 years nephew ... (complete word for TNT explosive). I admit i'm very proud of that !
Oh my god this is the best part of kids!!! My youngest cousin could not do her R's so we would bribe her to say things like "pumpernickel" and go up to people and say "what sweetheart." My brother started repeating "What the hell" at age two thanks to me and his dad. I taught him to go up to my female friends and say "Hey hot cakes." My other cousin just had a kid so we are all gearing up for what we are going to teach her.
My daughter had an extremely vast vocabulary. I once picked her up from preschool when she was 3 and she informed me, "I want to be a Marine Biologist! I have to save the animals in the ocean!" At 4 she informed me she was going to be an anthropologist. At 2, we came down the stairs once and she exclaimed, "Look mom, I got myself dressed! It's a godda*n miracle!"
My mom never really cared about censoring herself around me. One day when I was 4 I was eating a hot dog at the beach and a seagull stole it so I screamed "WHAT THE F**K, B***H?!" Mom just started laughing hysterically...
I never censored myself much either. My daughter is almost 18 now and she swears around us, but not other adults. And my son is way more conservative at 13 then I am at 45 and wouldn't dream of uttering a bad word. So funny....
Load More Replies... I’m Brazilian, and somebody has taught my 7 year-old daughter to say “hipopotomonstrosesquipedaliofobia”, which is the Portuguese word for phobia of long words (kind of an irony). She’s been repeating that for years, just for fun.
We used to call the baby Mr. Fat Butt because he had a diaper on and it made his butt look fat. We thought it was funny. That was until the day he looked at me and said Fah butt to me. we stopped after that. Also it was like the first thing he learned after "Mama" so there's that.
Oh my god we has a similar name for my brother when he was a baby! I started calling him "Big Butt" when he was four months old because of the diaper-butt look. He's 22 now and I still call him big butt from time to time.
Load More Replies... I used to have a moderately severe stutter (still pops up on occasion, but rarely enough that hardly anyone knows) and big, complex words saved me. Can't get a short word out? Alternatively employ sequipedalian verbiage, enhancing conversation with synonyms of elaborate complexity which by chance bypass the stammer.
My dad taught my sister in Grade 1 to recite the title of his Masters' thesis in biochemistry. "The effects of trans,1-2,cyclopentanedicarboxylic acid on cell permeability". [For any chem nerds, this was before IUPAC nomenclature was invented].
I had a professor that taught her daughter how to say "Let there be light" in Latin and she would say it everytime she turned on the lights. XD
Load More Replies... When my brother was little, my grandmother and I taught him to say 'gluteus maximus'. He repeated the word wherever he went. One day when my mum picked him up from preschool the teacher couldn't stop laughing and said she was telling another child to sit down on their bottom. However, she only got to 'Charlie, sit on your...' before my brother screamed GLUTEUS MAXIMUS at the top of his voice.
I taught my four year old the lyrics to "Liar" by Henry Rollins. Nothing brightens your day than a little voice chanting, "Cause I'm a WIAR! Yeah! I'll rip your mind out, I'll burn your soul!"
Friends and I taught our kids to yell "Mojito" when jumping in the pool, and so have they done a week long. Next week, my son is going to the swimming pool with his class, can't wait for the teacher's debrief
This isn't quite as weird, but I used to walk around the house singing: "OLD YEELLLLEERR! COME BACK YELLLEEERR! BEST DOGGONE DOG IN THE WEST"
Turn off the TV and read to your children, then it won't be hilarious or weird that they use the English language with depth and alacrity. Sigh. I know I'll be down voted, but this actually is sad to see.
What's sad in it ? It's good to have fun when you're living life. Learn to take a joke.
Load More Replies... When I was a child I watched a Finnish movie about a family called Kiljunen. When my family visited London for some reason I started singing loudly the theme song of that movie that repeated the name Kiljunen many times and of course it sounded weird for the English speaking people because Kiljunen souded like "Kill You Nen". My mom had to explain to the British people that I did not want to kill anyone, I just liked one obscure Finnish movie very much. :D
To me, language acquisition by a child is one of the greatest mysteries in life. A child can go from: "Me tired."....."Want a drink."....to "I decided that I would rather have the fried rice tonight." in DAYS!!! How does that happen?
Friend of mine taught his nephew how to say "I've had enough of your sh**!" whenever the boy's mother told him to do anything. First time she heard it was priceless.
Apparently it was `deoxyribonucleic acid` for me. Decades later, I`m still fascinated by Biology. :)
My Gran taught me to say Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious when I was 3. She also taught me to say "goodness gracious how audacious." I apparently would pull those two things out all the time.
When my best friend's daughter was 2, she was obsessed with my then boyfriend's computer and was constantly tapping away. I taught her how to say Michael Douglas and Wall Street. It was hilarious.
My sister is 5 and spent a good 3 years of her life talking in a British accent. We're from America, we don't until where she got it from.
Like when my nephew was "speaking" in French accent. We're an Italo-Croatian family. Nobody speaks French.
Load More Replies... I don't think my mother was very pleased when 4 or 5 year old me learned how to say "Shut up your mouth!" just like Boris Badanov from Rocky and Bullwinkle.
when i was 3 my stepdad taught me to "shuddup ya face" my mom found it hilarious but then again it was in my baby voice lol
Load More Replies... My son and I were waiting gon a t-shirt to come in the mail. Well, it took over a month and he looks and me and says"maybe you need to contact the proper administrative office about this"
When my daughter was 5 she informed me that she was voting for Obama because "Mitt Romney is a douchebag and suppresses women."
My daughter was always very fascinated with nature. She's been talking in full sentences since she was 16 months old (and hasn't stopped. She's 12 now) and I taught her to say "I'm a naturalist." At 16 months.
when I was 2 years old, every single time i saw one of those light up exit signs i would say perfectly clearly, "Exit!" people who heard was like :0 lol
When I was about 5 my favourite word was [German: Ausgerotted = Exterminated/made extinct]. I had no idea what it meant and had picked it up on the TV], I used it in the most stupid ways, like playing hairdresser or something and I would say 'no, this hairstyle is 'ausgerotted' [extinct/exterminated]. If someone listened to that they would have thought I was some weird kid. I remember that I just liked the sound of it. My parents laughed when they first heard me say it.
My daughter used "thrice" from age 2 and a half to 4, when she realized no other child around her used that word.
These are funny, but I don't like the one with the swearing. Parents shouldn't use that kind of language around their kids and they definitely shouldn't encourage it. That's just my opinion!
I taught my cousin to call my mom Anti instead of Aunt. It was pretty funny to hear Anti-insertmom'sname
My mom tells me that my big word was dismayed ("consternada" in our native spanish). Apparently I was ~dismayed~ when the lights went off at her practice and I learned it from 101 Dalmatians when Perdita knew about their puppies kidnapping </3
I never censored my language around my kids. When my daughter would swear I would just say, "That's a grown up word, don't say it, okay?" She would say "okay" and not say the same word again.
My daughter also had an Australian preschool teacher so at age 3 she referred to silverware as cutlery. "Mom, where is the cutlery?"
My brother is a History teacher and when our cousin's daughter was years old he trolled her asking "who do you prefer, Lenin or Stalin ?" She answered with perfect conviction and it was quite creepy hearing that cute little voice yelling "Staliiin !"
I taught "trinitrotuluene" to my 3 years nephew ... (complete word for TNT explosive). I admit i'm very proud of that !
Oh my god this is the best part of kids!!! My youngest cousin could not do her R's so we would bribe her to say things like "pumpernickel" and go up to people and say "what sweetheart." My brother started repeating "What the hell" at age two thanks to me and his dad. I taught him to go up to my female friends and say "Hey hot cakes." My other cousin just had a kid so we are all gearing up for what we are going to teach her.
My daughter had an extremely vast vocabulary. I once picked her up from preschool when she was 3 and she informed me, "I want to be a Marine Biologist! I have to save the animals in the ocean!" At 4 she informed me she was going to be an anthropologist. At 2, we came down the stairs once and she exclaimed, "Look mom, I got myself dressed! It's a godda*n miracle!"
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