# 14 years ago, a 9-year-old found a 700-year-old coin...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 12, 2019, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-years-ago-a-9-year-old-found-a-700-year-old-coin/843331 "2019-11-12T15:53:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-years-ago-a-9-year-old-found-a-700-year-old-coin/843331/41 "2019-11-16T17:53:56Z")

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> [@muldoonthief](#):
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> Not just that though - the limited vocabulary, the incredibly simple sentence structure, constantly repeating the same information, etc, it’s literally like it was written by someone in middle school trying to pad out their 500 word essay assignment. . . .  
> Though the stock images of things like a pile of envelopes under the mail slot were pretty funny.

In fact, it’s like it was written _ **for** _ children. Or that it’s from an English as a second language book, where they dumb down the rhetorical mechanisms of a text thinking that’s necessary for comprehension.

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