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Today, we briefly explore the wacky world of semantics. To make an overbroad generalization, people these days seem to have little respect for the language, when it's really all that separates us from our tree-swinging forebears. So much depth and complexity can be conveyed with just a few minute sounds strung together, whether intentional, or by subtlest of subtexts. From deep, life-changing affirmations, spoken with the utmost care and forethought (say it again, please!), to throwaway expletives mindlessly spat out (but no less telling) in the heat of passion.

Some days (though fewer and further between, of late) it just hits me out of nowhere, the dichotomous nature of how words, language, and lexicon, while powerful enough to bring us to today's level of civilization and technological domination (grass huts notwithstanding), sometimes also utterly fail us. Think about that for a minute. Mind? Boggling? Let's move on.

So to those who choose to truly communicate feeling, emotion and honest thoughts, obrigada. Every day has the potential to be Christmas.