Hello! I recently got interested in the Chaghatay language and decided to collect a little dictionary from Chaghatay to English, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Kazakh, Turkish, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Mongolian languages. If anyone is curious, welcome! https://vtvestnik.kz/languages.php
So obviously Chagatai (also known as Old Uyghur, Old Uzbek, or Sart) was frequently used as a lingua franca, for literary purposes, in administration, and by some members of the upper class in Central Asia between 1400 and 1900, but was it ever spoken by a majority of the common people in any particular region?
I download many clips for him from YouTube history channels, like the French Revolution from Oversimplified, the Timurid Conquests from Kings and Generals, and Chinese Dynasties from Countryballs Explained. He likes watching history more than any other topic or show.
We discuss history based on the videos, with him asking me new ‘what?’ and ‘’why?’ questions based on what comes to his mind (eg. “which Mongol Khanate is your favourite? Why the Chagatai but not the Ilkhans? Why don’t they rule now?” etc.
I’m not sure what more I could do. He has no interest in reading novels, diaries, magazines etc. even if they’re for his age group. The only books he likes reading are geography books because of the maps, flags and statistics (eg. languages spoken, main religions, currency). He wouldn’t want to read textbooks and answer the comprehension questions.
Is there anything more I can do to take his development to the next level?
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
It was about a weak back.
Where ever you left it 🤷♀️🤭
