pretty hard. and then you can bounce it like this and you can throw it to people and you can run while you are bouncing it. and then there is this hoop at the end. it used to be a basket. and you try to throw the ball through the hoop, and that is why it is called a basketball. they would have a really good idea of what it is. they would be able to spot one, and tell it from a soccer ball or a football.
you can’t do that with the word beauty. there are some words in our vocabulary which we can communicate with not because we 