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I anyone else bothered by "maked up" in the url? Granted my grammar is slipping as I get older, but it doesn't sound like correct English to me. If incorrect, it feels a bit odd to be reinforcing something like that in the context of storytelling, which I would hope, is partly about the grammar being used.

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I'm assuming they were trying to imitate a child's manner of speech - i.e. children tend to lack the experience with language to know about a lot of special cases with the English past tense, leading to "eated" and "fighted", etc. The website name is just a play on words based on this.

This is correct. Hopefully whatever improvement children get in their imagination by listening to these stories will offset whatever minor regression in language skills a child may experience due to this semantical humor, which indeed is intended to follow the form of a typical child's mistake.

> whatever improvement children get in their imagination

I would have been warier of exposing them to products of unintelligence.

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