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I disagree. One year ago, I raised this same point on another Wiki. In order to provide evidence, I sent a message to several linguists from Wikipedia Linguistics Portal. All the answers were like: "There is not an ounce of etymology there" <small>(because I was the only one who provided any evidence, that wiki stonewalled me... AND they also sent me a policies link stating that stonewalling is forbidden on their own wiki)</small>. ---[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 09:46, 24 August 2023 (EDT) | I disagree. One year ago, I raised this same point on another Wiki. In order to provide evidence, I sent a message to several linguists from Wikipedia Linguistics Portal. All the answers were like: "There is not an ounce of etymology there" <small>(because I was the only one who provided any evidence, that wiki stonewalled me... AND they also sent me a policies link stating that stonewalling is forbidden on their own wiki)</small>. ---[[User:Abacos|Abacos]] ([[User talk:Abacos|talk]]) 09:46, 24 August 2023 (EDT) | ||
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:Since you didn't think it necessary to adress some of my points about prescriptivism, I'll put it this way: you're the only one who has had a problem with the way we use the term I've ever encountered in my decade long wiki career, and it's not even that you don't understand it, you just prefer to use "Name origin" (which... I have news for you about what the word etymology is made up of). The reasons your concerns aren't heeded here nor anywhere else is 1-It doesn't cause any good faith confusion 2- vernacular use is not an invalid thing in a non-academic context and the fact that you thought to bother actual professionnals for a fansite about Dragon Quest is secondhand-embarrasing 3- it's a very small nitpick that demands a lot of corrective work 4- you went about it by complaining about us on an external website and keep insisting and obfuscating, which doesn't really make anyone here open to listening, sorry. It has nothing to do with Civil vs Common law, I'm confused where you even got that from and if you think it's an apt simile, you fundamentally don't undertand how language works, which is where we circle back to prescriptivism. | |||
:This has been an interesting conversation. Even though I'm still confused about how we are supposed to explain how terms from different languages are formed without translation, definitiuons and descriptions.--[[User:Tigali|Tigali]] ([[User talk:Tigali|talk]]) 10:25, 24 August 2023 (EDT) | |||