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→The word "etymology"
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Thank you and best regards, --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 19:01, 14 August 2023 (EDT) | Thank you and best regards, --[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 19:01, 14 August 2023 (EDT) | ||
:The use of the word Etymology as the section header for the origins of terms, names, and so forth has been standard practice since the adoption of the wiki format at large.([[User:Follower of Light|Follower of Light]] ([[User talk:Follower of Light|talk]]) 23:55, 15 August 2023 (EDT)) | :The use of the word Etymology as the section header for the origins of terms, names, and so forth has been standard practice since the adoption of the wiki format at large.([[User:Follower of Light|Follower of Light]] ([[User talk:Follower of Light|talk]]) 23:55, 15 August 2023 (EDT)) | ||
Your answer is very kind, but if it is true, I have to admit that I am really baffled. | |||
This is a big case of "Artistic Licence: Linguistics". Tvtropes.org explains it in a nice way ([https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArtisticLicenseLinguistics link]) : | |||
: ''most people recognize that when dealing with questions of physics, biology, chemistry, etc., they need to ask an expert, whereas with linguistics, many people don't even realize that there are experts to be asked.'' | |||
Someone, years ago, had his/her own personal definition of "etymology", and no one cared whether it was correct or not. Is that so? | |||
Indeed, if you remove all the "buzzwords" from the actual definition of etymology, you are left with ''"Etymology studies the origin of [...] words"'', but that is not etymology anymore (not to mention that the difference between "word" and "name" is quite subtle). ---[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 09:43, 16 August 2023 (EDT) | |||