Fundamental name plant animal 1. Inclusive name tree herb vegetable 3. Generic name fogwood oak elacca elm 4. Specific name Bradford fogwood lake fogwood, Tzu lei fogwood, spotted fogwood 5. Vanetal name mountain Bradford fogwood northern Bradford fogwood Terms at all levels are mutually exclusive- nothing is both a tree and a herb-and belong to a group on the next higher level- trees, herbs, and vegetables are all plants Level 3 is the largest (for the nonspeciahst) and the most basic, having about 500 catego nes m every known language It is more specific than level 2 and useful m more contexts than levels 4 or 5 Note also that terms m level 3 are simple but those of 4 or 5 are complex and usually derived from leve! 3 terms Level 3 divides up experience in a way shared by speakers of all languages, a way more natural and easier to distm guish for all observers But a forester one who specializes m trees, begins to think one level down treating tree as a fundamental name, fogwood oak and elacca as inclusive names, and Bradford PREMEN LANGUAGE 244 FREMEN LANGUAGE fogwood lake fogwood and spotted fogwood as generic terms But genencs should be simple terms, so the forester speaks of bradfords lakes and spots instead He also increases the size of the specific level by adding new names Snow Mountain bradfords snap-needled lakes shagbark spots Specialists distort their worlds by magnifying their own areas of specialization and the words in them out of all proportion Outside the specialty life is too often stopped by being ignored movement is frozen None of this knowledge was kept secret by the Bene Gessent their advantage lay in talent, commitment and practice The method of playing the baliset is no secret, yet few do it well Moreover B G members were free to share their knowledge and willing to do so Princess Irulan readily put her learning in the service of the empire her husband ruled, telling the Arrakeen War College, for example, how language change can signal social unrest 'In all major socializing forces you will find an underlying movement to gain and maintain power through the use of words In the maintenance of such a power structure, certain symbols are kept out of the reach of common understanding Symbol-secrecy of this form leads to the development of fragmented sub-languages, each being a signal that its users arc accumulating some form of power With this insight into a power process, our Imperial Security Force must be ever alert to the formation of sub languages "4 The Path of Understanding The Bene Gessent had a second objective in their study of languages the liberation of self In this more advanced study, the first step was to torn the light of &e awakened mind on the hidden assumptions of one's language As the anonymous writers of The Panoplia PrvphsUcus expressed it, "If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced "5 Analyzing these assumptions occupied much of the novice's time For example the aspi rant might be asked to divide a set of sentences into two groups 1.