Language Ancient Greek Achievements

okay. Still talking about ancient Greek achievements.

This time we're talking about language.

I already alluded to some of this in the first

one when we talked about literature.

Um, so the Greeks they had borrowed and adapted their

their written alphabet from a group of traders in the

Mediterranean. Notice the fake Asians and then the Romans, They're

going to take the Greeks, and they're going to change

a little bit.

And our alphabet is a little bit closer to that

of the Romans.

But it's all kind of mish mashed mushed together.

What the Greeks did do is when they created it

off of that, they had an upper and lower case,

um, for each letter.

So that was something a little bit knew.

They also when they wrote they would, right?

Like we dio from left her.

So that was something a little bit different as well.

You could see some of the letters out there.

Some of them look a little familiar, right?

Even the word alphabet.

Let me go back.

Even the word alphabet takes the first to the A.

And the B is actually ALF Alfa, uh, and beta.

And they put it together alphabet.

So the word alphabet itself comes from the Greeks.

100 on dhe.

50,000 Greek words are in our language.

Um, some 60 to 80% of the words that we

use are either from the Romans and the Greeks.

They have some connection there, and it gets when we

get into, like, the medical field, it's even.

It's even higher percentage when we talk about using parts

of the Greek words and language.

Usually it's a root word.

So the root word, Otto meaning self.

Then you get automatic autobiography.

You know, where you write a book about yourself, even

the word bio.

The bio means life.

So when you put auto bio and graph E which

Grafite is the writing those air, all Greek like roots

mushed together, somebody self writing about their life.

Bio on the writing part is the Grafite automobile.

Um, it goes by itself.

I mean, I know we drive it.

Wow. Some cars can drive themselves.

Okay, where our route where it's like chrono, chrono means

time. So when you talk about putting things in chronological

order, you're talking about putting them in timeline order.

So when we say routes that we're talking about.

I alluded to this last time we did the literature.

Things like sayings like your Achilles, uh, the Achilles tendon.

If someone says something is your Achilles heel, that actually

can be traced back to a story of a hero

of Achilles who get shot with an arrow in his

ankle. Maybe one of our mythology experts in the class

would want to tell the story of Achilles here.

I also mentioned about Herculean task Hercules being a Greek

hero and, um, Herculean task being something very, very difficult

to overcome.

Then you get other things like things.

Guy here holding up the world.

His name is Atlas.

Where do you go to find maps?

You go to an atlas?

Um, he was a titan.

He was larger than life.

He was said to be, you know, holding the earth

on his shoulders.

So from great language, we not only get a lot

of the words, but we also get some of the

sayings, um, phrases like I said, Herculean task and such.

I'm showing you this picture of the medical field because

currently, like I said, 1000 are 150,000 words.

Come from the Greeks are are some form of the

Greeks. I said 60 to 80% of the words come

from Roman and Greek roots.

It gets higher when we go into the medical field.

It's about 90% of the terms that you would use

and that you would use in medicine are gonna have

Latin, which is the Roman or Greek roots.

So if you get a handle on those root words,

you'll do good becoming your little doctors and nurses that

you're gonna become alright.

See you later.

Language Ancient Greek Achievements

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