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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Ah... the age old question;
"Which came first the Etymologist or the common use of the word?"
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Or, what, back in the day when I was doing graduate linguistics work, we call "etic vs. emic". Dunno if they still use that.
Does language shape our ideas or do our ideas shape our language? It made for great late night academic debates, but of course the truth is it's both/and.
Though from what I understand, in recent times variations of weak Whorfianism have gained the upper hand.
--nathanael