DICTIONARY MYTHS: PEDANTIC SCHOLARSHIP AND MYTH MAKING
MISSING THE BIG PICTUREWHO IS TELLING THE STORY?
An Australian physicist has uncovered an error in dictionary definitions that has likely stood uncorrected for a century.Oxford English Dictionary said he was the first person to question the definition of siphon, which dated from 1911 and had been written by editors who were not scientists. Oxford Dictionary won't admit their 100 year mistake, but only that his views would be taken into account as they updated the entire reference book which may take another 100 years - who knows? Use the Internet to find the correct answers it is more reliable. An extensive check of online and offline dictionaries did not reveal a single dictionary that correctly referred to gravity being the operative force in a siphon. [source]
Thought Police: You can't think all that wonderfully well without words and whoever controls the language controls the conversatoins and perhaps what you are allowed to thing and know. THIS IS CENSORSHIP.
An entire country of Irish people / journalists / musicians, and athletes speaking Irish to each other have no problem with the etymology of jazz being Irish. Irish Language Speakers know how TEAS is pronounced and what it means. We will not tolerate word robbery that fosters obscurity and oblivion of the very words that keep the threads "knowing", a people's identity, and culture intact. The very words that cut back through the fog of time and our the culture's memory.
A people's language being relegated to the UNKOWN as if it doesn't exist. As if a people's identity which is entirely known by their language do not exist. As if what their culture, and cultural memory knows doesn't exist. No theft of memory allowed here, words trace our memories, and our identities.
From Threatened Languages to Threatened Lives Daniel L. Everett.
Etymology of Sneak -sneaky gossip serves a purpose If you do not get to - have - keep - and possess your own words, then in time you and your people won't remember and know what you know.
DICTIONARIES ARE TRUSTED SOURCES
INFORMATION OR PROPAGANDA?
Sneaky Dictionary Dicks, publisher$, editor$, online player$, and word a dayer$ are the thought police not Irish Subject Scholars, merely ordinary people; who happen to control what gets into a print and online dictionary. And just like any other ordinary person, can be arrogant, ignorant, sexist, classist, and very wrong. By refusing to acknowledge substantiated evidence and print the sanas of Jazz is Irish and by refusing to print that there is a possibility that sanas of Jazz MIGHT be Irish it confirms that when dictionary dics say "origins unknown" it really only means "THEY don't know". With reputations to establish or protect and because some are climbing the academic ladder it is easy for them to pollute the scholarly record.
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Factoids are stupid things H-Bot a history of a software agent.
Factoid: An invented fact believed to be true because of its appearance in print – Webster.
ANOTHER example is the word Vigorish all the online dictionary dicks say it's Yiddish.
WRONG it is NOT Yiddish but another excellent example of the "Racialization of Language".
Oral Tradition - Gossip Serves a Purpose
Lakoff writes that "Every word, like elephant, evokes a frame, which can be an image or other kinds of knowledge: Elephants are large, have floppy ears, and a trunk, are associated with circuses and so on. The word is defined relative to that frame. When we negate a frame, we evoke the frame...this gives us a basic principle of framing, for when you are arguing against the other side: Do not use their language. Their language picks out a frame--and it won't be the frame you want."