lol true enough! when I say "greek roots" I mean "the class of thing vaguely thought of as greek roots when parsed/analyzed by english language speakers". I thi

lol true enough! when I say "greek roots" I mean "the class of thing vaguely thought of as greek roots when parsed/analyzed by english language speakers". I think my confusion lies more with the presumed "masta" prefix then it does with the bracketing itself. It just looks very very strange to me.