STUDY PACK	15
	
You might suppose at once that it is the BIG words or the technical words which are most misunderstood.
This is NOT the case.
On actual test, it was English simple words and NOT Dianetics and Scientology words which prevented understanding.
For some reason Dianetics and Scientology words are more easily grasped than simple English.
Words like "a," "the," "exist," "such" and other "everybody knows" words show up with great frequency when doing word clearing.
It takes a BIG dictionary to define these simple words fully. This is another oddity. The small dictionaries also suppose everybody knows.
li is almost incredible to see that a university graduate has gone through years and years of study of complex subjects and yet does not know what "or" or "by" or "an" means. It has to be seen to be believed. Yet when cleaned up his whole education turns from a solid mass of question marks to a clean useful view.
A test of school children in Johannesburg once showed that inteiligence DECREASED with each new year of school!
The answer to the puzzle was simply that each year they added a few dozen more crushing misunderstood words onto an already confused vocabulary that no one ever got them to look up.
Stupidity is the effect of misunderstood words.
In those areas which give Man the most trouble you will find the most alteration of fact, the most confused and conflicting ideas and of course rhe greatest number of misunderstood words. Take "economics" for example.
The subject of psychology began its texts by saying they did not know what the word means. So the subject itself never arrived. Professor Wundt of Leipzig University in 1879 perverted the term. It