12-06-2012, 05:22 PM
Ra not only introduced a whole bunch of terminology to convey their concepts, but they also drew upon the whole history of the english language to find the exact word they were after.
you can see a list here:
http://www.lawofone.info/unusual-words.php
some of these were unfamiliar to me when I first read Ra. For eg athanor, tocsin, and nimiety. A few others were vague in my mind, and I had to jog my memory.
but I find this an interesting point: vocabulary represents a storehouse of ideas. If, in previous centuries, they had a wider working vocab than today, does that mean we have less sharpness of ideas to work with today?
you can see a list here:
http://www.lawofone.info/unusual-words.php
some of these were unfamiliar to me when I first read Ra. For eg athanor, tocsin, and nimiety. A few others were vague in my mind, and I had to jog my memory.
but I find this an interesting point: vocabulary represents a storehouse of ideas. If, in previous centuries, they had a wider working vocab than today, does that mean we have less sharpness of ideas to work with today?