Talk:Suffer the Little Children

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[edit] "Cataclysmically retarded"

What does the phrase "Cataclysmically retarded" mean? I think we should explain in the description of the book (or use a different phrase to describe the children). I haven't read it, or I'd put an explanation in myself. -Elizabennet | talk 21:25, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

It means that the kids are really fast to showing that they are retarded and we can't have a section that explains the meaning of the book. That would be like explaining why the Empire State Building's is not going to be refurbished or knocked down. Do you see? LOTRrules 18:58, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Aha, I understand. My apologies, I interpreted it as an (insulting) attempt to describe the level of the children's mental retardation; I thought the writer was saying that the children were 'extremely retarded' rather than actually using the word 'cataclysm' correctly. -Elizabennet | talk 15:45, 3 September 2007 (UTC)