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by danilocampos 5299 days ago
Leaving aside my glee that we must reach into mythology (edited, thanks rubidium) to help Google's case, any letter that begins "Dear Sophie" sounds like it's a letter... to Sophie. And while she might not be able to read it right now, my initial guess as to why would be that infants don't have great reading comprehension, not that Google can't find an algorithm to get around COPPA.
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rubidium 5299 days ago
Entirely OT, but you did bring it up.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_Age. It would be iron age. And no historian disputes that an actual letter was written to Corinthians (and most are certain on Paul), so that takes out the mythology. At best, you can call it "Iron Age history of uncertain veracity". Sorry that it doesn't have quite the same demeaning effect.

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danilocampos 5299 days ago
Touché! Though the contents of said communiques do, indeed, form mythology.
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fpgeek 5299 days ago
IIRC, Sophie is old enough to read in at least part of the ad (though perhaps I expect kids to learn to read on the earlier side).
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Kylekramer 5299 days ago
Not sure what the age of the reference has to do with anything, but ok, here is a modern one. I write a poem, and send it to my girlfriend via email. Who is the author of the poem? I really don't get how intended recipient = account owner.
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danilocampos 5299 days ago
> I really don't get how intended recipient = account owner.

You can't send an email to someone who doesn't own an email account.

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Kylekramer 5299 days ago
But the commercial isn't about sending emails to your daughter. The account is all emails sent to itself, which the father someday intends to log in and show to his daughter. It is the digital equivalent of keeping a scrapbook. The father creates the scrapbook about his daughter, and then shows it to her. I fail to see anyway this can be seen anything but the father's account.
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danilocampos 5299 days ago
> But the commercial isn't about sending emails to your daughter

That's very true, as I don't have a daughter. It's about one man sending emails to his daughter.

And the way I know that is it's called "Dear Sophie" and then the dude makes clear Sophie is his daughter. And the script, as written, has the narrator talking and writing to her, and not himself (which would have been less touching, if apparently more legally accurate).

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