What many people don't understand is that words like "understand" aren't arbitrary. Once the construct in your mind is stable enough, you "understand" it, meaning you can "stand under" it without it crumbling and killing you.
All words are like that.
It's probably more obvious to German speakers because we're used to compounding and decompounding words.
Same in Dutch. Have had this thought many times as well while speaking with the French around me. They use language less like puzzle pieces, but play with in completely different ways that are crazy confusing to me.
Now that I think about it, Chinese is kind of the same, especially the way characters are constructed from multiple smaller radicals.
Same for Japanese. It's beautiful. 
Hahaha 😹 too funny to not be a stable construct in my head after 2 seconds
True. "Kashimashii", meaning noisy.
Oder zum Beispiel "sich aufregen" ;-)
13 likes and no zaps? What has #nostr become?
Thinking words are arbitrary is like thinking money is arbitrary, like we could just create a language via fiat and if people agreed it would work.
Maybe that’s the fundamental bankruptcy of wokeness.
What's has this guy been smoking.
When they come for your corn
Them: Do you understand us
Meaning do you stand under us
I comprehend
True,
Even with the word "motivation" : What is your motive for something.
Sometimes our language has already all the cues needed to build different outcomes in our lives.
No. They are words. What's important is the connections the words imply.
It's all in the matrix, man!
WORD.
I guess I didn't understand that word
Amazing! 🧡
