> hence is not-ratio-able, or irrational TIL !

DavidSJ · 3 days ago

Interestingly, the etymology seems to go:

1. ἄλογος (alogos, Greek for unsayable or unreasonable)

2. irrationalis (Latin translation of ἄλογος)

3. rationalis (Latin backformation)

4. irrational/rational (English translation)

5. ratio (English backformation)

Steps 3 and 5, the backformations, are perhaps in the opposite direction one would expect.