Rain comments on The many faces of status - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Morendil 15 April 2010 03:31PM

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Comment author: Jack 15 April 2010 10:56:18PM 6 points [-]

I wonder how often stuff like this happens. My father mispronounced "sword" until college. Somehow things just get missed in education (formal and self)-- I have to wonder what is that one fact or event that everyone around me knows about but I don't!

Anyone else have examples of things educated people are supposed to know of that they somehow never learned about until surprisingly late?

Comment author: Rain 17 April 2010 12:03:41AM *  4 points [-]

Until a few months ago, I didn't realize The Beatles purposely misspelled their name as a musical pun.