Pudd'nhead Wilson
Novel by Mark TwainWikipedia
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Search complete. 7 mentions across 4 episodes found for "Pudd'nhead Wilson".
Oct 7, 2026
Jocelyn ChadwickGUEST
It's in, of course, Huck Finn.
Jocelyn ChadwickGUEST
You have those same words in The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and in A True Story Repeated Word for Word.
Jocelyn ChadwickGUEST
And for example, in A True Story Repeated Word for Word, he uses the word colored, and I was teaching that short story to a group of elementary students, and one student, and she was of color, said, "Would you mind telling the class-" That colored is a bad word and I said, "That is fantastic." I hadn't really thought about it and I said, "Yes, I understand that colored is a word that is no longer used." And in that one moment with that sixth grader, we were able to talk about how language changes-
Alisha SearcyHOST
Mm-hmm
Jocelyn ChadwickGUEST
It's in, of course, Huck Finn.
Jocelyn ChadwickGUEST
You have those same words in The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson, and in A True Story, Repeated Word for Word.
Jocelyn ChadwickGUEST
And for example, in A True Story, Repeated Word for Word, he uses the word colored, and I was teaching that short story to a group of elementary students, and one student, and she was of color, said, "Would you mind telling the class..." That colored is a bad word and I said, "That is fantastic." I hadn't really thought about it and I said, "Yes, I understand that colored is a word that is no longer used." And in that one moment with that sixth grader, we were able to talk about how language changes-
Alisha SearcyHOST
Mm-hmm
John TierneyGUEST
It, it makes, it, it makes both of you feel better, makes you feel closer, and it really does, um, magnify the joy.
John TierneyGUEST
Um, you know, there's a great, um, aphorism from Mark Twain from Pudd'nhead Wilson where he says, "To get the f- the full value of a joy, you must have somebody to divide it with," and that's, that's crucial to do in a relationship.
Mike CarruthersHOST
It almost seems that today the idea of penalizing or punishing someone for something they've done wrong or they've not performed well, that penalizing them for it is almost archaic and that, that the enlightened approach in some circles is to praise the positive and ignore the negative when what you're clearly saying is to, is to just praise the positive is a fairly weak way to motivate people's behavior or performance.
John TierneyGUEST
Penalizing does work.