Heavenletters

I will not speak about my being "not authentic" because I'm "not authentic" quite often, and while I'm "not authentic", especially when I'm very "not authentic", it doesn't feel "not authentic"  a t   a l l !!!  Interestingly, the more "not authentic" I am, the more "not authentic" smiling can feel. So perhaps how to make your smile a genuine one is the only problem in the world.

No, I'd much rather dwell on what is, for this foreigner, a very interesting use of the word "mate" (interesting because, in German, we have Maat only as "deck officer on a ship"). When I look up "mate", what a wealth of meaning! And the most interesting is the origin of the word:

"ORIGIN late Middle English : from Middle Low German māt(e), ‘comrade,’ of West Germanic origin; related to meat (the underlying notion being that of eating together)."