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Take a swing at it, but I wager the idea is that the Latin and Greek words presume a state of human community that doesn't exhaust these even older configurations, premised as they are on erected physical barriers between inside and outside, state and nature, whereas a hunter-gather group building something like Tepe defies this difference.

Aristotle asserted that human communities form no less naturally than a hive of bees or an ant mound (something Spinoza will echo thousands of years later), in contrast to say Hobbesian theory of community, but he jumped right to the configuration of the city straight from there when we have glimpses of stranger possibilities that arose before, and labeled all other configurations defective.



Some parts of "English" deliberately lean on Latin and Greek and get no further - I suppose we call it the classic influence. I'd like to see English crack on and continue to subsume words and concepts from foreign parts.

Now, here we have evidence of a really old civilization and I'd like to see English words being extrapolated from the languages (lingua - Latin) extant (Latin) of the region (Latin - regio).

I think it is time that we start pinching Anatolian names and concepts. It's quite a large region and over 10,000 years it must have had quite a lot of ideas and concepts that we take for granted now and given the age of the place - probably invented them.




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