Whoa now, Mr. Grumpyface, I at least had something to try and contribute rather than 'wut'.
That's because the part I was replying to had little better to ask, in its bizarreness.
I was saying that the words enigma and ultimate are pretty Greek/Latin in origin as opposed to just being fancy words made up to seem Greek/Latin like all the butchered dead languages that get used in entertainment/fiction writing/Harry Potter.
JK Rowling actually speaks Latin (Though as to whether she speaks it with an actual Latin accent, I don't know. Likely not, as few people except professionals in the language do) and a very large amount of Latin in the HP series makes sense. Though some are from other languages (avada kadavra) and some are just silly (ridikulus).
The OP seemed to imply that the latter was true. I can't really judge if ultimate and enigma are any more Latin-sounding that any other Latin/Greek word though so maybe there's something valid there.
They don't.
The quote was put there to share a common insight that English, throughout history, has adopted many other words from other languages aside from Greek/Latin origin. French, Spanish, and other languages have been taken into English's repertoire along with plenty of neologisms (hey, a fancy technical term!). People use words like ultimate and enigma today because people have been using them for 300+ years and they work, I don't know if there's a better way to put that.
I've already said this in [link]:
Enigma and ultimate are pretty thorougly in the English lexicon at this point
take a shot when someone whines about being the target of an 'ad hominem' argument.)
Ad hominem and synonym are really not related in any way.
This is all framed by the peculiar notion that anyone cares about what anyone else's key name actually is.
Non-sequitar huzzah?
If I were to add to his comments, I'm not generally of the opinion that intelligence is fixed or capped on a per-person basis as some people seem to believe, particularly given how fluid the brain is when it comes to other areas. Not to say you can just buy a book on how to be intelligent, read it and have your IQ shoot up by 30 points on all tests, but I'd hazard a guess (and it's just that) it's a fluid group of attributes. Then of course my favourite for these discussions, context. I can't perform brain surgery and no matter how high my IQ, I couldn't just pick up a scalpel with no prior learning or training and stand a medically safe chance of performing a given operation. There are factors of learning, practice, a certain re-assuring self confidence on the task and motor capability to start with etc etc. It may help me get there and to handle a new and emerging situation better, but to consider it alone as eligability would be a bit of a case of the cart before horse.
But hey, it identifies children who may need extra learning support or a different educational approach pretty well, and for that you've got to give it some credit I think.