Beyond Stupid
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Stupid, . . . from French stupide (16c.) and directly from Latin stupidus “amazed, confounded; dull, foolish,” etymologically “struck senseless,” from stupere “be stunned, amazed, confounded . . .” —www.etymonline The first, and only, time, as an inexperienced father, I called my five-year-old son “stupid,” I could feel how it stung him. Never again, at More

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