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Imagine a time in Ancient Greece where one would speak a word and it would produce an image and feeling connected with the divine mysteries of the spiritual world.  A story, a feeling, a romance, a mystery - all entwined within a single word.  The Greek language was made of living words that were both multi-dimensional yet entirely holistic in meaning.  The words were living because words at that time did not merely reflect the name of a simple person, action, place or thing like they do today. Rather, the Ancient Greek language produced a knowing, and a living feeling of a whole ideal behind a person, action, place or thing.  This is essentially what bridges a word into a holistic intelligence.  

When Ancient Rome overtook Greece, they eventually applied the Latin language.  Latin is more suitable to scientific logic than to that of a nation, which is why it is used most commonly in the medical & scientific communities today.   Greek words had an actual, living quintessence to them prior to the Roman Latin assimilation. Rome tried to adopt such holistic concepts and spiritual ideals in their own language for which they had no parallel words.  The Romans then applied logical Latin words and sounds to those warm and living Greek sounds and words, thereby reducing them to a more materialistic meaning with the Latin restrictive sound.  The newly adopted Greek words and concepts were now void of deeper spiritual meaning and images through this Latin assimilation.  

This Latin assimilation brings us to a feeling of final limitation of knowledge, for it's words are more like using a calculator leaving us with little imagination or striving for an answer. Words have become an empty name describing little about what a person, action, place or thing really and truly is about.  Words have become only a useless name - a stripping away of the Greek impulse and element which derived its nature from an intimate connection with a deeper, spiritual world.  The more meaningful and spiritual definitions of life, soul and love have been buried into a foreign language that could not reproduce the soul warmth and impulses of what lived within the Ancient Greek heart.  Latin could only produce a vague feeling of meaning and definition with it's underlying, cold tone of logic and science.   The Ancient Greek definitions and ideals have become hidden and silent under the mask of the Roman-Latin language, yet the Greek's impulses still live on beneath the surface of things - mostly on a subconscious level.  Much of modern English has it's roots from this assimilated Latin language.



Let us make known the unknown - let us rediscover the lost experience of words...  

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The Roman-Latin Assimilation of  Words... A Theory of Language Abstraction

Leilani C. Racoma-Lessnau 

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