context changes everything

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The Story

The words weren't the problem. The context was.

This episode is about connotation, denotation, semantic satiation, and why the same word can mean completely different things depending on who's holding it. It's also about the words from school, fat, ugly, weird, boring, and why they weren't inherently catastrophic. The context made them that way.

And contexts can change. That's the whole point.