Childrens language development

[Fernley13]

Call me fuddy duddy if you like, but am I the only one who thinks that during prime time Children's TV at 9 am in the morning, an advert with Linda Bellingham saying "I'm knackered" isn't really appropriate.

Channel 5 says that "This particular advertisement has not been categorised as being unsuitable for the transmission time". Clearly we live in a society that wants to encourage (every 15 minutes actually) children from a very young age that 'knackered' is acceptable language do we? Not for my 22 month old! Grrrr!

Err, that's the worst thing you see in your toddler watching adverts?

Bang Show Me Show Me on and say no more about it.

I thought it was because old horses get sent to the knacker's yard. I really have never heard of it being sexual! My DD says cream crackered...

You shouldn't be watching tv at 9 in the morning.

It isn't anything sexual. It's derived from the knackers yard.

Knacker is a word for gypsy or traveller. It's used a lot in Ireland for travellers - they're called the knackers. It's a pejorative term. The term knackered comes from the idea that old tired horses are taken by the knackers. However, people say "knackered" all the time and I would never see it as offensive.

If you look it up online, it means tired or used up, but also has the meaning of being exhausted after sex.

Never before have I heard of "knackered" being related to sex. It's origins are related to horse ( as was said before). When a horse was too old and exhausted to be useful to a farmer it would be taken to the knacker's yard where it would be slaughtered and sold for glue.

There is another word 'knacker' which means 'testicle' but it comes from a difficult origin (no pun intended). Isn't the English language wonderful? We often have one word with two or more different meaning.

p.s. Should a 2 year old be watching telly?

I had no idea about the sexual connotation, and clearly it is used in refence to just being tired. A horse being sent to the knackers yard is tired, old and being retired - not, sadly, on his way to or from the stud farm.

Or are we suggesting that Lynda Bellingham was post-coitus when she said it??

5dollar: Linda Bellingham post-coitus is not something I want to be thinking about...

my 2 year old says knackered... didnt realise it meant anything other than tired! you learn something new every day!