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#tdc5239 #ds106 #dailycreate What’s the last book you read? Share it with us, as a photo, or as a review

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📚 The last book I read is The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce D. Perry and journalist Maia Szalavitz.

One line that struck me deeply was: “Experience, what may be traumatically stressful for one person may be trivial for another.” (p. 41, Kindle Edition). This reminds us that trauma is subjective. What devastates one might barely register for another, and vice versa. It challenges the assumption that there’s a universal scale of suffering, and highlights the importance of listening to each child’s unique story instead of dismissing their pain.

Another unforgettable passage reads: “Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.” (p. xxviii, Kindle Edition). This metaphor captures the dual power of human connection. Just as natural forces can sustain or destroy, relationships can either heal or harm. Perry and Szalavitz show how adults’ actions—whether compassionate or cruel—shape children’s lives in profound ways.

Together, these quotes capture the essence of the book: trauma is not universal, and children are often underestimated in their capacity to feel pain. Through heartbreaking stories of kids in war zones, survivors of abuse, and children grieving the death of parents, the book makes clear that PTSD in children is real and devastating.

This book is both eye-opening and heart-wrenching, reminding us that relationships can either heal or harm, and that children’s pain must never be dismissed.

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The Longest word in French is “intergouvernementalisation”. Design a longer word in any language.

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The challenge is to create a new longest word in your language. And define it. In a toot.


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In Vietnamese, things work differently. Instead of fusing syllables into one compound word, Vietnamese strings multiple monosyllabic words together, separated by spaces.

The longest stand-alone word I can find is Nghiêng, which means to tilt, to lean, or to incline. Yet when it comes to complex concepts, Vietnamese expresses them as full phrases. For example:

Chủ nghĩa phản đối tách rời nhà thờ ra khỏi chính phủ

(11 syllables / 54 letters)

This is the direct translation of the English word antidisestablishmentarianism. While it functions as a single conceptual unit, it is grammatically treated as a phrase rather than a single compound word.

So in Vietnamese, the “longest word” challenge becomes the “longest conceptual phrase.”