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etymonline is a perpetual delight. The maintainer answers emails fast, too: i asked him to provide a RSS feed for blog posts 6 weeks ago and it was live 90 min

etymonline is a perpetual delight. The maintainer answers emails fast, too: i asked him to provide a RSS feed for blog posts 6 weeks ago and it was live 90 minutes later!

edjrage 7y ago
Just nitpicking - it's her (at least according to the linked page, second last paragraph).
- FearNotDaniel 7y ago
  > When I played World of Warcraft I found I generally chose a rogue. Human. Female. Doesn't say anything about the author's actual sex, gender or preferred pronouns in real life. Only the character they like to play in a video game. In the footer though, it does say: > © 2001-2020 Douglas Harper Make of that what you will.
  - phyzome 7y ago
    If the author played a female orc, would edjrage have assumed the author was an orc? :-)
    - myself248 7y ago
      On the internet, no-one knows you're a human...
  - andrewl 7y ago
    The name in the footer is correct. Doug was a few years ahead of me in school, and our families are still friends from way back.
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  Douglas Harper is a historian, author, journalist and lecturer based in Lancaster, Pa. He is the author of... http://slavenorth.com/columns/bio.htm http://slavenorth.com/columns/bio.htm
fanf2 7y ago
I was just looking for an RSS feed but I can't find a link on the site. What is the URL?
- hprotagonist 7y ago
  https://www.etymonline.com/feed/columns.xml https://www.etymonline.com/feed/columns.xml
fenomas 7y ago
YMMV I suppose - I emailed him a correction (for "anime") years and years ago, which seemed pretty uncontroversial (4-5 reputable sources that all agreed), but he never replied or updated the entry. :(
- hprotagonist 7y ago
  for the animation style or the gothic armour?
  - fenomas 7y ago
    The animation style. Not sure how armor fits into things, but etymonline lists "anime" as being derived from French, where it's actually just an abbreviation of English "animation".
    - hprotagonist 7y ago
      For a totally unrelated reason, it is a late 15th century italian/swiss/german armor form made of laminated and often enameled plate: https://collections.royalarmouries.org/archive/rac-archive-89031.html https://collections.royalarmouries.org/archive/rac-archive-8...

etymonline is a perpetual delight. The maintainer answers emails fast, too: i asked him to provide a RSS feed for blog posts 6 weeks ago and it was live 90 minutes later!

edjrage 7y ago

Just nitpicking - it's her (at least according to the linked page, second last paragraph).

FearNotDaniel 7y ago
> When I played World of Warcraft I found I generally chose a rogue. Human. Female. Doesn't say anything about the author's actual sex, gender or preferred pronouns in real life. Only the character they like to play in a video game. In the footer though, it does say: > © 2001-2020 Douglas Harper Make of that what you will.
- phyzome 7y ago
  If the author played a female orc, would edjrage have assumed the author was an orc? :-)
  - myself248 7y ago
    On the internet, no-one knows you're a human...
- andrewl 7y ago
  The name in the footer is correct. Doug was a few years ahead of me in school, and our families are still friends from way back.
dredmorbius 7y ago
Douglas Harper is a historian, author, journalist and lecturer based in Lancaster, Pa. He is the author of... http://slavenorth.com/columns/bio.htm http://slavenorth.com/columns/bio.htm

fanf2 7y ago

I was just looking for an RSS feed but I can't find a link on the site. What is the URL?

hprotagonist 7y ago
https://www.etymonline.com/feed/columns.xml https://www.etymonline.com/feed/columns.xml

fenomas 7y ago

YMMV I suppose - I emailed him a correction (for "anime") years and years ago, which seemed pretty uncontroversial (4-5 reputable sources that all agreed), but he never replied or updated the entry. :(

hprotagonist 7y ago
for the animation style or the gothic armour?
- fenomas 7y ago
  The animation style. Not sure how armor fits into things, but etymonline lists "anime" as being derived from French, where it's actually just an abbreviation of English "animation".
  - hprotagonist 7y ago
    For a totally unrelated reason, it is a late 15th century italian/swiss/german armor form made of laminated and often enameled plate: https://collections.royalarmouries.org/archive/rac-archive-89031.html https://collections.royalarmouries.org/archive/rac-archive-8...