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 No. Words are smarter than you. Smarter than me. Smarter than us. There's wisdom in language.  
 What many people don't understand is that words like "understand" aren't arbitrary. Once the construct in your mind is stable enough, you "understand" it, meaning you can "stand under" it without it crumbling and killing you. 

All words are like that.  
 It's probably more obvious to German speakers because we're used to compounding and decompounding words. 
 Same in Dutch. Have had this thought many times as well while speaking with the French around me. They use language less like puzzle pieces, but play with in completely different ways that are crazy confusing to me.   
 Now that I think about it, Chinese is kind of the same, especially the way characters are constructed from multiple smaller radicals.  
 Same for Japanese. It's beautiful. https://image.nostr.build/4a3267f61ab9d451d2a0921ff9ab616befe1f62fbe62cbe0e1b94abaffe9b1d6.jpg 
 🤪😂 
 I don't even know if it's true or not but I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IT 😂😂😂 
 "truthy" 
 Ich habe meine Übersetzer darauf gehetzt und erwarte kurzfristig eine Antwort 😅 
 "Kashimashii", noisy 
 Ha ha! It's fr! 
 Gigi becomes Siddhartstr 😄 
 Hahaha 😹  too funny to not be a stable construct in my head after 2 seconds 
 True. "Kashimashii", meaning noisy. 
 Oder zum Beispiel "sich aufregen" ;-) 
 I tried to "stand under" my fear of heights, but I just couldn’t get over it. I guess I just don't understand 
 You aren't bearish enough  
 I don't know. My big brudder eats honey and falls asleep in trees sometimes... And he growls at me. Pretty sure he's as bearish as they come 
 13 likes and no zaps? What has #nostr become? 
 Thinking words are arbitrary is like thinking money is arbitrary, like we could just create a language via fiat and if people agreed it would work. 

Maybe that’s the fundamental bankruptcy of wokeness.  
 The constructed language Esperanto is an interesting example of this. 
 Made up != arbitrary 
 What's has this guy been smoking. 
 When they come for your corn

Them: Do you understand us

Meaning do you stand under us

I comprehend
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 It’s always been a tough one for me the whole Good morning ,, what’s so good about morning something , isn’t that grieving ? Why isn’t it good day or whatever ..  
 I like break fast 🙂  
 True,

Even with the word "motivation" : What is your motive for something.

Sometimes our language has already all the cues needed to build different outcomes in our lives. 
 No. They are words. What's important is the connections the words imply.
It's all in the matrix, man!  
 WORD. 
 makes me think of the word grok 

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 I guess I didn't understand that word 
 Amazing! 🧡 
 Not all words. 
 Depends on how you use them. Words are developed by people that knew less than what an average person knows now, so how could they be smarter without own consciousness?! 
Even if the same words are used, the wisdom expressed in them is for who reads, understands, lives and reflects it. We learn by example if we don’t have time in life to live the experience, so we are often fascinated by the wisdom reflected in the words of others. Best words are the words of God in the Quran by the way as well as best wisdom. 
Anyways, there are many ways to communicate not only words. 
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 Except "is" according to Bill Clinton and everyone else who didn't call his social engineering, Marxist doublespeak.   #wordsmeanthings or nothing means anything. 
 All proper words are like this. There's wisdom in language.
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 There’s also fun in language! 🙏🧡

Since I’ve started learning German I’ve rediscovered my love for linguistics! A German told me I was covered in “Sommersprossen” which translates to “Summer-sprinkles” aka “Freckles” 🤗. Also “Chickpeas” in German are called “Kichererbsen” aka “Giggle-peas”…or I call them “hehe peas”! But then if you look further "Kicher" comes from the Latin "cicer" which means "pea". Ergo, “Kichererbsen” means "pea peas" 😂. Ahhh so much fun, learning is never ending! Next…Latin! 
 Vornehmlich veranschaulicht. 
https://media.tenor.com/19CHxK1HlO8AAAAM/german-little.gif  
 The depth of those words… 🕳️ 
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