I am Stella, Queen of the Olde English Bulldogges.
Me: Where is the remote?
Stella: The what?
Me: The remote? You know. The thing that changes channels on the T.V.
Stella: Changes the whats on the what?
Me: The stations on the…okay…Picture Box.
Stella: What are ‘stations’?
Me: Never mind.
Stella: Why do humans have to give a name to everything?
Me: It’s built into us. It started a long, long time ago, in the Garden of Eden. Adam named every creature as the LORD God brought them to him.
Stella: And you have never been able to stop.
Me: There always seems to be new stuff to give a name to. Don’t you have names of your own for stuff you come across?
Stella: Sure. We call it ‘stuff’. As in ‘do you see that stuff? Where did that stuff come from? Did you smell that stuff?”
Me: So, to you, everything is just ‘stuff’.
Stella: Sure. Except for stuff that’s not.
Me: Seems a little non-specific.
Stella; What is ‘non-specific’?
Me: Never mind.
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