I always wondered how hardcore etymologists (?) feel watching certain history shows or sci-fi knowing that there’s no way they could be using certain words or phrases.
I assume it’s roughly the same feeling programmers get when some TV character “creates a GUI interface using visual basic to track the killer’s IP address.”
Of course I can distinguish the words, I just don’t know their meaning, and it bugs me.
Etymology is not just the meaning of words but their history. How they were coined and what they meant at different times in the past.
I always wondered how hardcore etymologists (?) feel watching certain history shows or sci-fi knowing that there’s no way they could be using certain words or phrases.
I assume it’s roughly the same feeling programmers get when some TV character “creates a GUI interface using visual basic to track the killer’s IP address.”
I’m an IT dude (part software dev, part network admin) and I like etymology. Can confirm.
smashes two keyboards at once, causing green-on-black HTML code to appear in the reflection in sunglasses
I’m in.
Depends. A show taking place in the 80s where the kids are saying “poggers” and “rizz” would be pretty jarring.
you have to have some yarbels to get me gulliver to watch 80s baffoonery.