Yes, it may be very well true that geniuses struggle to find the right words to express themselves; their thoughts are not the limit, their expression of their thought into agreed upon terms is the limit.
Maybe the best of writers become better thinkers because of this: how many times can you rewrite a sentence before the ideas become one cluster idea and the sentence breakdown has to become mechanical, algorithmic. This can be honest self-assessment or it can just as easily be delusion. You have to focus on each word and decide if that word will get represented the way it’s supposed to. You have to be careful some words don’t come with too many frills, things like connotations or innuendos — but you do want the right frills. Words begin to limit you, so you can understand how others could be limited: those that never thought in words to begin with.
So, you study geometry or Latin as best you can, but if the words of your language are all you ever know: at least read as many books as you can and struggle with the rest of us. Do it for long enough and you’re now credible to make the words up as you go.
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The idea of learning Latin is helping me understand why I should really learn Latin. The best way to put it in English: it’s a measure of degrees. The language of Latin is a lower degree than the language of English. English comes with more freedom — more space, being higher — but thus requires a step to get to.
Basic Latin is essentially that step, and you know it from everyday use: “-phobic” means “fear”, “-ology” means “to study”, etc. If I said I had an “arachno-ectomy” last Thursday, it is Latin that is telling you I has spiders cut out of me.
The words of Latin are closer to experience than English; English language is more specific, more characterizing, and yet, less close to real experience. Less efficient?
If you think you are fancy because you know French or Spanish (Canadians, Americans)… at least English tried its best to: 1) move past gender, 2) work around the languages already there, and 3) be loose with definitions… while it conquered the globe.
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“The dominant language — the dominant, in general, in fact — will be come those willing to persist only. Replicators beat all other opponents in the game of time until that opponent who can end time itself. For, moving forward, and yet still against the entropy of the universe, becomes the only challenge for those who have mapped all else but randomness itself.”