Rover says "Read me a story".

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LFS - 08 Jul 2009 15:22 GMT

This headline caught my eye, from the Telegraph online:

"Primary school children read to dogs to improve skills"

Whose skills? I wondered. The next line explained:

"Primary school children are being encouraged to read to dogs to improve
their literacy, because the animals don't laugh at mistakes."

How do you know if a dog is laughing? And couldn't this be absolute
torture for a literate dog? I think the RSPCA should be informed.

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Chuck Riggs - 09 Jul 2009 16:12 GMT

>This headline caught my eye, from the Telegraph online:
>
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>How do you know if a dog is laughing? And couldn't this be absolute
>torture for a literate dog? I think the RSPCA should be informed.

If a dog in England makes the same sound when you make a mistake in
French, it is probably laughing at you, assuming it hasn't done much
traveling.

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Chuck Riggs,
who speaks AmE, lives near Dublin, Ireland
and usually spells in BrE

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Discussion Groups / English Usage / July 2009

Rover says "Read me a story".