Mind’s dictionary!!!

Sound is acknowledged by the centre of listening of the body – Ears!! Sound is accredited by the central processing unit of the body – Mind!!
Source of sound has no criteria. It can be any source.

But often it happens that we people, after listening to the sound of a word/sentence, we don’t understand what it means, and try to make a guess rather than simply saying, “NO, WE DON’T KNOW THE ANSWER”.

Why? Where these guesses originate from?

Well, from - Mind’s Dictionary!!!

It’s an open source dictionary that works 24x7. Its database is updated each hour, minute, second of our existence while we talk, walk, read, think and so on. Mind’s word list stores each and every word that we have listen and read till date.

The moment we hear any sound, our mind register it and search its own dictionary to find its meaning, if it finds the same word there with the same pronunciation(sound) that it has just heard, we understand that word. But what if mind doesn’t find it in its words list, then what???

Now, here two situations arise. Read carefully!!
Suppose mind doesn’t find that sound in its dictionary, now it has two choices, either mind will direct you to search its meaning by asking someone or looking into dictionary (not of mind) or mind will say to you, "leave it, never mind, it’s just a word, what’s a big deal if it doesn’t know.”

Well if mind works according to first choice then, no issues.But as mind has ego too, so sometimes rather than ignoring the word, it tries to make a guess. As in, it will search its own dictionary and would try to match the unknown word with the nearest, adjoining, closest word it can find in its own word list.

So guess work is nothing, but searching the mind’s vocabulary. That’s why, even not being a software engineer, often in a party and talking to your friends who are software engineer though, we talk with their jargon talks. How? Because, inside our mind keep the matching game alive with its own dictionary!!
Great!! Isn’t it!!

I know, sometimes it can lead to hazardous results, if in case we give advice or guide someone on the basis of our mind’s word list. So, never do that.

Till then, keep updating your Mind’s dictionary!!

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