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........ not sure I trust Dictionary.com.....does nothing to differentiate the multiple uses to which the web is now put.
OneLook reflects all current usages and irrefutably demonstrates semantic drift or what I call "smearing". I think you've smeared (in the more traditional sense) OneLook by equating it to Dictionary.com. they're not at all the same thing, as OneLook includes the latter, as well as 990 other dictionaries. Yes tsu I realize that and I regret I can't express myself more clearly. What I meant to say was that a perusal of the dictionaries might reveal a number of more generalized definitions of certain terms which would support my observations about semantic shift ......since you're chewing up Anu's bandwidth with this discussion, why not use his terminology: Wordsmith Talk (bulletin board) which includes several Forums of which this ( Q&A about words ) is one. [/quote] Yes yes again forgive me for my apparent lack of clarity. Quite to the contrary, I was not seeking a term specifically to describe WS but a more generalized expression that would cover all sites of a general type in which the average clod (me) by posting therein is found conversing with others; and preferably being foreshortened, abbreviated, or otherwise colorfully designated by a term using fewer letters but unlike "blog" or "PC" upon which most participants would agree
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>unlike "blog" or "PC" upon which most participants would agree
yes, that would be forum. (one would hope that five(5) letters isn't too taxing.) unless you're of the old, pre-internet school which still tends to call them BBs.
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>unlike "blog" or "PC" upon which most participants would agree
yes, that would be forum. (one would hope that five(5) letters isn't too taxing.) unless you're of the old, pre-internet school which still tends to call them BBs. Thank you tsu, yes, I had considered "forum." However I was under the impression that a forum was usually considered a collection of threads within the site and so that use might prove ambiguous
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At first, the newer meanings are just wrong, but you get to a point where ... if the vast majority of people say the word "pig" means "a type of fowl" then, well, I guess that's what it means.
Or, to take a real world example, if the vast majority of people say the word "deer" means "a member of the family Cervidae" then, well, I guess that's what it means.
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Nope, never heard a short generic term for computer.
I and some colleagues speak of laptops, desktops, and even palmtop (devices) rather generically to include personal computers that variously run MacOS, Windows, or one of the Unices. Box or host is almost always confined to speaking about a computer ('puter) running Unix.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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unless you're of the old, pre-internet school which still tends to call them BBsI tended to call them BBSes (short for bulletin board system, link) back in the day, and some even used the term bboard ( link), though sadly, not I.
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