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Hot Topics from the Tropics - I just now finished reading @Hatley 's post about the wisdom (or the lack of it) in using someone else's topic to form up a posting of your own. How to write your own dictionary? Just copy everything you find in your handy "Webster's Unabridged..." Nothing to it, right? After all, the meanings of everything you say - all of those words - are the same for everyone. Or are they? A little change here. A little change there. Now you have your very own dictionary. But, but, but... Will anyone else ever use the thing? Will you ever use it? What happens if you do use your very own dictionary - the one for which you changed all of the word meanings - maybe even some of the spellings? No one would ever again understand a thing you were trying to tell them. "Today (really yesterday) we have a hot topic straight from the cold tropics. It snowed tomorrow." Maybe on Thursday (Thirsty?) What shall we do if the beach sand all melts and turns to glass? "Quick - Call Corning Glass Works if their electrical phones are working next week (today). Someone. Anyone." Image: The tropics (from Pixabay.com)