THE GREEK LOGOS THAT “CREOLIZED” ENGLISH, BUT HAS SURVIVED SEMANTICALLY ONLY IN MODERN GREEK
Channel: GREEK LIGHT IN A BARBARIC WORLD
Date: 2020-07-11

The word "logic" is Greek. And although all languages have borrowed it to refer to the human reasoning process, only Greek uses its root "logos" to mean "speech", establishing the connection between reasoning and language; and only Greek uses the derivatives  of logos, like λέγειν (legein), as verbs to "speak", "to say" and the noun "lexis" to mean word. These derivative values within Greek words affords one with the greatest affinity with logic throughout Greek diction. 
In that sense, it is he/she who speaks and consciously thinks in Greek that enjoys the greatest distance from the animal kingdom, from being a brute and, therefore, a barbarian. 
Creole languages like English deprive their speakers of immediate access to the semantics of words heavily borrowed from Greek and Latin and therefore hinder the affinity with their philosophical and "civilizing" content.