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2021/10/9
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I noticed the other day that the word "gentile" has a very different meaning in Italian than in English. I.e. in Italian "gentile" means friendly, in English it means not Jewish. The word is of course pronounced differently depending on the language - but is nevertheless spelled identically. So you can't use the same words in the same way in different languages, but you have to know their meaning in order to use them correctly or even worse to avoid misunderstandings. How nice and relieving it is to know that one's own name is language-independent. What your name is, and even more so who you are, is language-independent. Isn't that great? You are allowed to be yourself, and you should be yourself, regardless of the environment in which you find yourself. I encourage you to be fully yourself today!

I wish you an extraordinary day!