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| Jun 29, 2021 at 14:09 | comment | added | uhoh | @EarlGrey as a fluid, I think we should encourage language to emulate water, as in Bruce Lee's Be like water 1, 2 rather than become simply wishy-washy and let the malapropicists have their way with it. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 13:56 | comment | added | EarlGrey | O the contrary, languages are fluid, if the perceived meaning of a word is constantly different than the one advocated by a single person, that single person will soon be Miss Malaprop. The physician will be more helpful if he/she/it uses non-ambiguous technical worlds, rather than words having a certain meaning in the dictionary and another in daily life (which most likely will end in the dictionary in one decade or so). | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 13:40 | comment | added | uhoh | @EarlGrey basically I don't think we should be afraid of using a word because there exist some biologists that get it wrong some of the time. Imagine if physicians fled patients who were sick rather than rallied to their side for assistance and revitalization. The word fits. It works. Let's defend the languafe! We shouldn't let a few malapropicists kill it! | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 13:37 | comment | added | EarlGrey | You are as much median as much as humble! | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 13:33 | comment | added | uhoh | @EarlGrey being profoundly median myself, I feel I have a good finger on the pulse of the median population, unlike those with advanced knowledge of etymology who look down on it like so many ants the same way that entomologists look down on a colony of ents. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 13:23 | comment | added | EarlGrey | I am quite sure that in a specific context there are other words than holistic to describe a complete overview of the complex system/topic under analysis and this is the reason why holistic has such a bad reputation. See for example the abstract of this paper, related to biology ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3067528 I am saying all this because a language is not what you studied in mid-single digits, it is what and how it is used by the median of the population today. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 13:10 | comment | added | uhoh | @EarlGrey that might be the first thing that pops into their minds if presented with the word holistic in some word association game, but used in a specific context don't you think most English speaking folk will be aware that the word has more than one meaning (as words so often do) and that they should refer to the sentence in which it was used? That's how I learned English back when I was in the mid-single digits. | |
| Jun 29, 2021 at 9:56 | comment | added | EarlGrey | There is a non-zero chance you have a German cultural background. While holistic in german is seen as the google result you get, in the anglo-saxon culture holistic generally means homeopathic treatment, lunar cycles in agriculture and to cut your hair and so on... | |
| Jun 27, 2021 at 18:07 | history | answered | uhoh | CC BY-SA 4.0 |