I appreciate that clarification, thank you. I had been thinking that perhaps somebody had discovered how to modify the downloadable .rbf name files, hacked the Fisher-Price website and altered one or more of the names. If James is included on the CD-ROM, then the plot thickens even further......
Considering how popular the name ‘James’ is as well as how popular this toy presumably is, one would think that a problem like this would be widespread if there had been an alteration of the CD-ROM.
Perhaps this is nothing more than an isolated software glitch, but if so it’s amazing that it’s manifested itself in this particular way, and that it’s grammatically-correct as well.
I haven’t known very many random software errors to follow the rules of English grammar :-)
The Elmo says hundreds of phrases, adding in the child’s name like those insidious form letters we get proclaiming “Yo-Yo! You’ve just won...”
So if it originally said “Hello James” when you squeezed its hand, I can see how it got corrupted and said “ell James” which in Elmo’s voice could sound like “Kill James.”
Or something like that. As I said, there’s probably a little recessed master reset button in the battery compartment, the kind you need a straightened paperclip to hit, then just reload the software and be done with it.
Oh yeah, that’s not as financially rewarding as suing Fisher-Price can be.