Snack

You can start biting into the snack starting from his letters.
Their unfolding, composed of vowel + nd + vowel, is a real linguistic fossil to be discovered and tasted.
It deals with the training put in place by Latin with the gerundive, a way of conjugating verbs that has not survived in our grammar but is discovered in numerous words of common use.
The verb mereo means to deserve and therefore the snack consists of what one must deserve.
Our word is accompanied by something modest, as if something were to be hidden.

Maybe the snack has lost the flavor of conquest in our homes and has become just a right unrelated to the rest.
Maybe the promise-performance-reward scheme has earned a bad reputation as a grim and inefficient educational method.
But it has united many cultures, so much so that it has passed through the centuries without changing either literal form or meaning.
The reason will be: we human beings are strange plants, dreaming of a snack makes us bear fruit.
Of this human characteristic, however, we are ashamed.
We should bear fruit in a disinterested way, as an application of pure theory, as if we were incorporeal, without the need for support, motivations, daily exhortations.
While the snack remains only that thing for children.

Fabio Arduini
NP August / September 2021