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The viewers were called various names Stereopticon, Stereoscope. But what you viewed, the cards with the two images were referred to as a stereotypes, after the

The viewers were called various names Stereopticon, Stereoscope. But what you viewed, the cards with the two images were referred to as a stereotypes, after their printing process, I would suppose. The devices were extremely popular. Neither of your sources that address etymology address the etymology of the word in reference to prejudice. So they can hardly be held to contradict.

carlmr 9y ago
Searching for it I only find the printing process for the etymology: https://www.etymonline.com/word/stereotype https://www.etymonline.com/word/stereotype https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/05/stereotypical.html https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/05/stereotypical.htm... https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/10/11/origin-stereotype-cliche/ https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/10/11/origin-stereo...
- Nomentatus 9y ago
  Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
  - carlmr 9y ago
    Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence though. Until now nobody brought any evidence for the claim, so we should disregard it as fiction until we have that evidence.
kragen 9y ago
On the contrary, all three of the pages I linked about the etymology of "stereotype" explicitly address the etymology of the word with reference to prejudice. I am at a loss as to why you would say they did not. Also, the cards with the two images were not referred to as stereotypes, and they were not printed from stereotypes, because it was not possible to print photographs from stereotypes until the invention of halftoning, which entered commercial use in 1873/ It is wholly implausible that this would result in changing the popular name of stereoscopic images, some 30 years after the invention of the stereoscope and 10 years after they became popular. Even after the invention of halftoning, stereoscopic images were almost invariably printed instead using photographic processes, which do not use stereotypes. Even in the late 20th century, View-Master discs were made using photographic film, not ink. There is no attested history of using the word "stereotype" to refer to stereoscopic images.
- Nomentatus 9y ago
  Quite false. They have nothing about the origin (etymology) re prejudice, just the time period so hardly contradict, just as I said. Fer instance, "Meaning "preconceived and oversimplified notion of characteristics typical of a person or group" is recorded from 1922." That fits my origin, and offers nothing else. I am at a loss as to why you can't acknowledge that.

carlmr 9y ago

Searching for it I only find the printing process for the etymology: https://www.etymonline.com/word/stereotype https://www.etymonline.com/word/stereotype https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/05/stereotypical.html https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2013/05/stereotypical.htm... https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/10/11/origin-stereotype-cliche/ https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/10/11/origin-stereo...

Nomentatus 9y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
- carlmr 9y ago
  Extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence though. Until now nobody brought any evidence for the claim, so we should disregard it as fiction until we have that evidence.

kragen 9y ago

On the contrary, all three of the pages I linked about the etymology of "stereotype" explicitly address the etymology of the word with reference to prejudice. I am at a loss as to why you would say they did not. Also, the cards with the two images were not referred to as stereotypes, and they were not printed from stereotypes, because it was not possible to print photographs from stereotypes until the invention of halftoning, which entered commercial use in 1873/ It is wholly implausible that this would result in changing the popular name of stereoscopic images, some 30 years after the invention of the stereoscope and 10 years after they became popular. Even after the invention of halftoning, stereoscopic images were almost invariably printed instead using photographic processes, which do not use stereotypes. Even in the late 20th century, View-Master discs were made using photographic film, not ink. There is no attested history of using the word "stereotype" to refer to stereoscopic images.

Nomentatus 9y ago
Quite false. They have nothing about the origin (etymology) re prejudice, just the time period so hardly contradict, just as I said. Fer instance, "Meaning "preconceived and oversimplified notion of characteristics typical of a person or group" is recorded from 1922." That fits my origin, and offers nothing else. I am at a loss as to why you can't acknowledge that.