Oh, thank you. I learned when I was a teenager, but I didn't have much reason to use it until I was in the Merchant Navy. I'm better at Russian.
[He considers the word.]
I think that is a good word for most of the world, I think. A lot of it appears to be one thing, a better thing, but is something a lot different. Do you think it's better that way? That it would bother people more if more people knew how bad things could be, how bad people could be, that it would hurt them more than help them? As irritated as I get with people being blind to the state of their lives, the conditions that everyone lives in, not just one life, I also think it would break many of them to know the truth.
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[He considers the word.]
I think that is a good word for most of the world, I think. A lot of it appears to be one thing, a better thing, but is something a lot different. Do you think it's better that way? That it would bother people more if more people knew how bad things could be, how bad people could be, that it would hurt them more than help them? As irritated as I get with people being blind to the state of their lives, the conditions that everyone lives in, not just one life, I also think it would break many of them to know the truth.