adjective:
Wise; sage; discerning.
By actual measurement they are the brainiest of birds, and on subjective evidence they seem more sapient than most other living creatures.
– David Quammen, “Bird Brains”, New York Times, August 1, 1999Sapient comes from Latin sapiens, sapient-, present participle of sapere, “to taste, to have sense, to know.”
You think you’re sapient until you have a talking child who twists everything you say against you.
Case in point: Kid wouldn’t carry out something she brought to a friend’s house and five minutes later wanted to go to McDonalds (we DO frequent the evil empire, but I didn’t start the habit). I said, “No, when I asked you to do something, you didn’t do it, so now we’re not doing what you’re asking.”
Seemed logical.
That night, she asked me to bring her a glass of milk instead of getting it herself. I said she could do it because she was closer to the glass, not me.
Seemed logical.
Until she said, “Mommy, if you won’t do something for me now, then I’m not going to do something for you later.”
Now who’s SAPIENT? HINT: not the one with the grey hair.
Final note: see the origins on this word from Latin? I like how knowing is also the word for tasting. So maybe homo sapien is not this higher life form, but just one that is known for putting things in his mouth.
I could see that.
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