When four-year-old methuselah sees an elderly gentleman enter a store, he screams, "mommy, look at that old man who looks like he should be dead! " the fact that methuselah does not yet realize that such statements are socially inappropriate indicates that he lacks a complete understanding of the of language?

the earthquake in haiti was a magnitude of 7.0 according to the u.s geological survey yet the smaller earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 and left more than 1.2 million people homeless. the chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 and 500 times more stronger but chile's earthquake only injured 712 people.