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> any stigmata anymore I'm assuming this was a spell check issue. Stigma is the appropriate word here. Stigmata are these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sti
by jnbiche 11y ago
> any stigmata anymore
I'm assuming this was a spell check issue. Stigma is the appropriate word here. Stigmata are these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata
- cm2187 11y agoActually it's me being temporarily dyslexic! Let's still call it a typo. Thanks
- zem 11y agostigmata is also just the plural of stigma; that usage hasn't disappeared yet.
- jnbiche 11y agoOh? Can you point me to an instance of that usage, where "stigmata" is used as a plural of "stigma" (meaning: a socially-ostracizing feature or trait), in a contemporary, edited publication? A will grant that it's sometimes used in the medical literature to mean "a clear, diagnostic sign of some illness", but the allusion there is to the stigmata of Christianity. I've never, ever seen it used to mean the plural of stigma as the word is commonly used in English.
- zeveb 11y agoIt's just like idiom/idiomata.
- zem 11y agoi internalised it as the regular plural of stigma, so i'm guessing i've seen it in books. here's a 2010 Google books result from googling "societal stigmata". https://books.google.com/books?id=xXTcQ-TyK6MC&pg=PA947&lpg=PA947&dq=societal+stigmata&source=bl&ots=V3YTNA1DAL&sig=QQCL9N7_3R0JqwyjtdJmmrOMVSs&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjn9PuQlIfMAhUI7B4KHVxwDUIQ6AEIMDAE#v=onepage&q=societal%20stigmata&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=xXTcQ-TyK6MC&pg=PA947&lpg=...
- jnbiche 11y agoOK, well done. I'm surprised it's still used by some writers in this manner, and it's very rare. It's definitely not the regular plural of "stigma". Still, I was wrong.