One thing that has always amazed me is when a scientist or scholar has an idea but no words exist to describe the idea.
For example, when Isaac Newton though about the calculus, he had no words to describe the concept. He invented a word, fluxion, to describe what he had invented.
It is the same with Old English and other languages like Latin. When major scientific and engineering advances happened, there were no words to describe the breakthrough.
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