The Flip Side of Vulnerability
When criticism isn't allowed to enter.
Several weeks ago, I made a video about a word I mis-use: penultimate. Who else thought penultimate meant “the ultimate ultimate” and not second-to-last? In the TikTok comments, someone told me to explore the word vulnerable. And so I did. And the results stunned me.
The etymology of vulnerable is vulnerare (Latin): to wound, hurt, injure, maim. It wasn’…
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