When is the last time you thought of you as a word?

Let me guess. The last time you thought of you as a word is when you realised that you meant you, in early childhood, usually between the ages of 2 and 3. But while this epochal event separates us — the word-using animals — from the 8.7 to 16 million wordless animals (nobody knows how many exactly), we tend to forget about it as soon as we speak our first (words). We equally tend to forget that in early childhood the number of words is in the low teens, but by early adulthood that number has increased to over 170,000 with new ones added as we speak.

Many adult word-users have ceased to think of you as a word. BIG mistake.

Everything, even nothing, we have a word for, and everything we know, is a word, and you is no exception. Yet many adult word-users believe understanding you is a waste of their energy and time because you is a word and they’ve learned everything that can be known about words, and then some, at school.

“Words are boring!” they respond to the need to know you. “Isn’t there a shortcut?” they want to know. Sure, there’s a shortcut. You can have others tell you the meaning of you, but if you let them, you lose.

To win, you must trust your own senses and hear and see you with your own ears and eyes, and when you do that, you can clearly hear and see that you is a word.

Typical of words, including you, is they couldn’t be anything else if they tried and they can be denied only by confirming them.

Every time you use you, you confirm it exists.

It’s not only about you. All words work identical.

In words as in you (given you is a word), there’s a difference between ARE, DO, and HAVE or, if you prefer, between IS, DOES and HAS.

By themselves, words don’t do anything. They couldn’t if they tried for they don’t have the organs required.

For words to do anything takes the word-user, that is you, me, and approximately 9 billion others like you and me.

Typical of word-users is we use words to describe the world only as we see it. That’s because words sit on our noses, as it were, as glasses, and everything we look at, we see through them. To many of us, it doesn’t even occur to take them off. This explains why we describe heart as being able to dance, tremble, ache, or even break, but when we forget the word of what we’re looking at, we can clearly see it’s just doing its job. And when that happens, we tend to forget about it and take it for granted.

The identical thing happens with words. When they’re just doing their job, we forget about them and take them for granted, too, don’t we?

TAKEAWAY

The question is, what is the word’s job? Nobody seems to be able to agree.
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