Past noon. Learning about everyday words.

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I wanted to say good morning to you but morning flew and it is almost 12:30. I just finished my first morning coffee after cleaning up a lot of pots that were soaaking in the kitchen. I soak with warm water teflon pots first so I don´t have to scrub them. I was reading on words and meanings for some time before actually turning off the lights. I didn´t know that an innocent post about the name of a cookie in my country would turn into a passionate one. There were good and bad parts of it. Most of the mylotters understood was I was saying. Thank you. But another thing happened. One of the lotters not only did not understand what I was saying but even attacked me in another post. I can say that although she is not the majority, she will benefit from these posts. I earned more money today than in the rest of the month and I will have more savings for my vacations. But after I got off from it all, it dawned on me that the other lotter had a point of view different because, among other things, her native language is English and mine is Spanish. In case you haven´t read my post, it was called "I will reach the minimum if I am not banned." And in the middle of the comments to the answers I received, I realised that the word "black" didn´t exist in Spanish. We only have one word: negro/negra. And I checked then on the etymology of the words. And I got it. Our language comes mainly from Latin. That´s why it is so easy for me to understand Portuguese, Italian and French. Negro comes from the Latin word "nigrum" and its first definition has to do with the color. Black, on the other hand comes from another source, probably Old English and maybe proto Indo-European via the Saxons. Hence, we don´t have a word thaat is a synonim to "black" but we use negro/a for all the uses they use it in English. That learned, I turned off the light and slept like an angel I was taught, when I was very small, to learn more if I wasn´t sure about what was said. I give thanks to my father who is not with me any longer. See you at my notifications, friends.