marianiles... loved your two pieces on Words. and feeling the need to represent my gender in the comments, since no girl participated in the other threat -or this one! I started wondering, do words know their own gender? at least in Spanish, where MESA is feminine, and CAR is masculine... but most importantly, are they aware of their power? how "BEAUTIFUL" can make my day, "THANKS" can start a friendship, and "HELLO" can mean a lot more... but "STUPID" can ruin somebody's life? do "PASS" and "FAIL" know they contain a life-sentence, much like "YES" or "NO"...?
I once heard a Mapuche (southern Argentina native) say that "YES" in their language was more than just an affirmative answer. it implied saying "no" to everything else. "If I say yes to a strawberry ice-cream", he explained, "I'm saying NO to all other flavors, and even to any other desert. If I say "YES" to you, I'm saying NO to the rest of the world..."
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