Kirian was referring to his kids. Reference the post your picture thread
Meh, I assume that was obvious, and people are being intentionally and obnoxiously obtuse. Which I do enough that I can't really complain about too much.
Just from that initial post, I thought you were talking about yourself. Makes more sense as your kids though. New thread: was Kirian's wording ambiguous?
Yes, but not intentionally so. "I started" without a further verb obviously refers to the thread title.
I read it as "I think I started reading at 7" since reading was being talked about as a prerequisite both in the preceding post and in your next sentence.
I mean, at
first, I read it as "I think I started playing Dominion at 7," but I figured that couldn't be right (i.e. it didn't seem to be a joke) and looked for another interpretation. I briefly considered that you might have been talking about the age of kids you started teaching, but rejected that idea because that made "at 7" a dangling modifier; it needed to be something
you were doing when
you were 7. "Teaching" didn't make any more sense than "playing," so "reading" was the only thing that worked.
I didn't understand that you really
were referring to your kids' ages until e pointed that out. Even now, knowing what you meant, I still can't squint enough to make the original look right to me; I can't mentally detach "at 7" from you and attach it to something not even mentioned in the sentence.
Probably, if "reading" hadn't worked as well as it did in context, I would have given up on my need for the modifier to not dangle and eventually accepted the intended meaning. It might also have helped if I'd known (remembered?) that you actually have kids and therefore would definitely have been in a position to teach some.
Not criticizing; just explaining the thought process of one person who legitimately misunderstood.