Hi Roger, hi all
Thanks for your advice, you may be right, that this one is to bumpy ;-) ! It is
not that I have created a new word for the fun of it, only I believe that it is
important to have a new word for what I mean. What about 'Eleval'? I'm also open
to other proposals! If 'Eleval' suits you, that is even better, for it is even
a more general expression compared with 'elvaleach'. We can call this also a
'Pirsig', but on the one hand he may feel insulted :-), on the other hand that
could produce even more confusion than even 'system'.
Now let me explain, why I consider it necessary at all to create a new word.
I'm not a fan of using or creating 'expert-vocabulary'. Many of them are near to
be synonymous to other concepts/words and some of them are to complicated to be
of any help.
A word is a concept, that describes an abstraction of someTHING or is needed to
think about the relation of THINGS to each other (f.e.logical operators). New
words are often created or found to express the meaning of a new THING or it
compresses a larger complex of things or any pattern that should lead to more
efficiency. For example SOLAQI is here a well known word, that has been needed
to express a more complex pattern of meaning. This encoding is also important to
adapt language. It is not only a short form in most cases, just like BTW, IMO,
USA, UK and the like; those are meant to save time and energy, primarily. No,
when new words are 'born', because, to some people, it gets visible, that there
is an abstraction, a complex of meaning that is often used and consits of nearly
always the same components.
After this encoding, leading to a new word, this concept often enfolds a life on
his own and after a long time it can differ quite much from it's original
meaning.
It does not matter so much, if you create a really new word or if you do this by
simply combining some old words to describe your concept, in both cases it is
changing after a while.
Now, back to 'Eleval' (or whatever!).
'System',latin for 'putting together' or also 'to assemble', does not very well
express what I have in mind, nor in it's original sense, neither in it's various
meanings - I found roughly 10 definitins in my books and I'm sure there are a
lot more - when saying 'Elements valuing each other'!
So in effort to leave behind this huge overload, also it's aristotelian spin,
and to express more exactly what I mean, I think it is making a lot of sense to
create a new word here.
Thanks for your attention,
greetings, JoVo
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