Why are we doing this?
And the name of the geographical feature itself is often just descriptive anyway, eg. big hill, small hill, hill with castle, river with mill, ... Even without foreign invaders a lot of these names have just eroded over the centuries to being unrecognizable.
I'm genuinely confused. What's the difference with pansexuality then? Is there a difference?
Agreed on the first, but hard disagree on the second. If people don't have the same definition of a word and can mean anything by it, it becomes impossible to have coherent discussions on the subject. Especially on matters as complex and nuanced as sexuality and gender.
They sometimes are. The "earths"/"planets" distinction is similar to the "suns"/"stars" distinction - in both cases we were aware of some of them before we knew they were the same sort of thing as our local one.
It sounds like you're talking about physics - but that's the field in which "Truth" and "Beauty" were flavours (they've now been renamed "Top" and "Bottom" to match the other flavours "Up" and "Down" - but "Strange" and "Charm" have kept their original names).
None. It's different labels for the same thing. Every definition I've seen for the difference has resulted in someone being offended and getting angry. People will use whatever is most comfortable for them.
Unless I'm mistaken Etymology is simply the history of a word how it came to be, it has nothing to do with explaining the meaning of it. Words change meaning over time and often have meanings detached from their etymology. Etymology is a fun thing to discuss and talk about but as a tool for understanding the meaning of words it's going to fail you hard.Five is a rather low estimate. This all falls under the genus brassica, basically cabbages and mustards, and its one of the most important crops in europe and asia. There are so many different crops and variations that its difficult to say how many. To spare the thread a long diatribe I just suggest going on a wikicrawl if youre interested. Theres also some good videos on it to find.
To throw my hat into the ring in the color/rainbow debate how about theres roundabout 400 colors, the perception of those is for artists and product designers to discuss?
Id rather not insert myself in this discussion but as a scientist this hurts me on an intellectual level. The clarity of definitions is the foundation of useful debate/research/everything. Sure I could name something applepie, but everyone would assume I mean applepies. When I then go and tell you to multiply it with the rotational axis youd just be confused. Is there someway to multiply applepies? Do I want to throw an applepie? Did I just name 2 applepie, 3 rotational axis and just went 2x3? When the definitions not clear, theres only confusion, as theres infinite possibilities what you could have meant.
Etymology is the tool to make other people, whom you couldnt explain your definition to, understand the meaning of your words and arguments.
Etymology is fun trivia, and I guess you could use as a memory aid, but it absolutely does not matter compared to how a word is actually used. Words can have almost identical etymologies, but mean completely different things, especially across languages. The definition of a word is what is important, and that is dependent on how it is used.
It's the reverse for me, I realized it was a pun like 2h ago. And it took Codex saying it out loud for me to notice 😅After the shipping vote settled, I thought the pansexual tag was still there as a pun on Panoramia
Really? Huh. I could have sworn they were the same language. Shows what I know.
In this case the relevant etymological fact is that the word bisexual entered the public consciousness at a point where genders were commonly considered to be something that there were exactly two of. It originally meant "all of the available options" and has largely retained that meaning in practice even as people's understanding of gender has increased. (Though I'm sure there are some people who use it differently.) Any break from the latin is the result of that history, not any conscious decision making. As a point of comparison, consider how electrical circuits are generally described with their current flowing from the positive terminal to the negative because changing the language would be too much of a bother despite us all knowing it's a less intuitive representation of reality.
Turkey uses Portakal as well and some times we say color of Portakal but that color is "turuncu" which is another way to refer to bitter orange. funny thing is we actually don't have a name for Brown either, we call it coffe colored since we met with coffee.
I know what you meant here, but I was recently reading a story where the MC had the superpower to win any fight as long as she used food, so I'm now picturing the Elves wielding custard pies as their weapon of choice.
That's because we found other planets later and didn't realise they were the same thing at first. Plus, we didn't name the planet after part of it. Think of Earth as 'ground' not as 'dirt'. It's the stuff beneath your feet, irrelevant of material.
No, it's not. Language is pretty much always descriptivist, defined by usage, not prescripitivst, defined by an outside entity.
Nah. It's notable that both Gaia/Gaea and Terra/Telluris can be used interchangably for the goddesses, the planet, the stuff you're standing on and sometimes personifications.
Is that the Worm fanfic where Taylor gets PtV and think it must always involve food?
