What's in a word

"What's in a name".............Shakespeare would have us be nicely poetic and idealistic.

We now know that's way more contextual than what we'd like to believe. Studies have evidenced that  'words' do influence our thoughts, and the meaning we make out of the situation, person, event etc

A small instance of how this works:

I have some flowers and plants in the house, and they've evoked reactions interesting enough to tell a story.....

"so pretty.....fake hai? artificial kyon re?"

"you gave artificial flowers for his birthday?" (one of those bunches was a gift for dad)

"are those real"? (some are). Which ones are real? it would be so pretty if they were all real"

Just in the use of the words 'artificial' 'synthetic' and 'fake', there's this feeling of belittling, of being imposter, of letting down. So much nuances.

It helps to ask the 'Why'? Why have them? What is the objective?

Is the idea to pass them off as real? or is it to add prettiness?

And lo and behold ! you have your answer and you love them a little more :)

In this context there's a quote of  Jean-Luc Godard which says it beautifully : 

“It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."