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I'm going to read two
more from the book.

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And then I'm going to
read you guys a couple

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from the new manuscript.

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One of the things I love
to teach my students

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is the etymology or
the roots of words,

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because in the study
of the roots of words,

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you begin to
understand something

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about the power of language.

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Etymology of Cute.

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Cute from acute.

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From the Latin "acuere"--

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to sharpen to a
point, an angle as

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in exhibit A, the perfect nose.

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Which is cute as in small and
well-formed, but not so small

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as to be peculiar, but rather
to be cute, and in such

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to give a face an
appropriate idiom.

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A cute face establishes
attractiveness.

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That is to say, rounded and
young, clearly complected so as

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to inspire the desire to mate.

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Cute from the old
English "cunnan,"

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which is cunning, which is to
know in a learned way, which

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is cute in itself.

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That is to say you are
cute, to know you are cute.

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"Mignon" in French
as in kissing,

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as in what the cute face
elicits from the mouth,

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and from the French "Mignon"--
minion, favored and mannered,

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a lover who is insincere.

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Too cute, which
is keen, which is

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sharp and to the point
like the daggers elicited

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from the mouth.

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Cute as in sharp witted, which
is perceptive, which is to say,

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don't get cute with me.

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