I've always wondered about this, as I'm fascinated about what the power the word, be it it written, or spoken, has over people. Obviously certain words carry a lot more weight than others. Again, I'm referring to both the spoken and the written word.
To someone who cannot read, obviously the spoken word is the most powerful. But to someone who cannot hear, the written word, apart from sign language, becomes the only means of communication.
To someone who cannot hear nor see, obviously this becomes beyond the scope of what I'm trying to get at.
But it just occurred to me that the most powerful word in the entire speaking world of humans is "me."
Just summoning the word to the mind bespeaks whole fountains of emotion, certainly nothing like "I" or "you". "Me" might possibly be the single most important word, in any language, in any form, indeed, even in non-human form, that exists on this planet.
To ME, this word rates a ten-plus on any scale. How about you?
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