Why are Latin and Greek words still heavily used everywhere? Like university frats and sororities, latin honors, and Biological terms? Why would they not use the English equivalent words instead for these words specifically?

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Why are Latin and Greek words still heavily used everywhere? Like university frats and sororities, latin honors, and Biological terms? Why would they not use the English equivalent words instead for these words specifically?

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France is actually doing for French what you propose for English: They have a “Commission for the Enrichment of the French Language ” which comes up with a French term for the French speaking world for everything that doesn’t have a French term, yet. [Example.](https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2020/05/27/france-invents-new-words-for-podcast-clickbait-and-chick-lit-in-war-on-franglais) And people adopt that more or less quickly.

One disadvantage of this is that they are e.g. actually writing of octets instead of bytes in all their English documentation, too. So a “single language of science” is clearly a benefit.