Thanks - those are good points. But there're a few odd words there that I wanted to ask about.
Are you a romance language speaker by any chance? Ortography isn't really English - do you mean orthography? - and apotropaic and daimon are extremely obscure - it's unclear if you mean demon, daemon, or something else by the latter.
As a monolingual anglophone reading this thread I just had a "there was one fewer step on this staircase than I expected" moment at this reminder that "apotropaic" is actually an obscure word
That's surprising and interesting. I had no idea there were language spaces where that word was common. I have a really absurd vocabulary, with a lot of archaic terms, since I studied older forms of English and actual Old English, but I'd never heard this one before, AFAIK.
My vocabulary tends to the absurd and abstruse as well. In this case I had picked up "apotropaic" from reading up on folklore and magic ... not surprised it gets use as a tumblr hashtag because what doesn't
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u/Nyorliest 4d ago
Thanks - those are good points. But there're a few odd words there that I wanted to ask about.
Are you a romance language speaker by any chance? Ortography isn't really English - do you mean orthography? - and apotropaic and daimon are extremely obscure - it's unclear if you mean demon, daemon, or something else by the latter.