Uncleftish Beholding (1989)
Randomish thoughts:<p>The Greek word <i>logos</i> which gets translated as <i>word</i> but is also the root word for <i>-ology</i> meaning <i>the study of</i> (biology, archeology, etc) has a much richer meaning than just <i>word.</i> I am not in a position to do it justice but this is where we get the biblical <i>In the beginning, there was the word</i> and it can really be understood to mean something like &quot;God had a thought and the world was thus born. He <i>conceived</i> it.&quot;<p>And so I have to wonder how much we use loan words for the additional layers of meaning they had to bilingual peoples trying to communicate about emerging concepts.<p>E = m c²<p>A friend of mine once told me this means <i>matter is energy in slow motion.</i><p>If you have an interest in other languages, the mix of Germanic and Romantic words found in English can help you parse a number of related languages. Just find the closest cognate in English as your touchstone rather than solely looking up the <i>correct meaning.</i><p>Flasche in German means <i>bottle</i> but its closest cognate is <i>flask.</i> Flask and bottle aren&#x27;t simply interchangeable, but it can be less mental work to pair it that way than trying to remember two words that don&#x27;t sound at all alike, especially since words in two different languages may not exactly match in meaning and usage anyway.