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> How many people know what the meaning of fop is these days? I don't know. I do, and I'm not a native speaker. And people using Greek dictionaries probably sk
by Grustaf 5y ago
> How many people know what the meaning of fop is these days?
I don't know. I do, and I'm not a native speaker. And people using Greek dictionaries probably skew towards being pretty well read.
But that's besides the point, since I suggested using some other word if they found "fop" offensive.
- bobthepanda 5y agoThe full sentence describing the editing in the article starts with “antiquated and offensive language”, which one might interpret to mean the removed words were both of those things, or one could also interpret that antiquated language and offensive language were removed as two possibly overlapping sets. The point of the dictionary is to use “contemporary English” since it’s used as a reference in schools. I’ve definitely seen “fop” before but in high school I wouldn’t say it’s something that I could remember without looking it up in a second dictionary, so it’s not that useful of a defining term. All this offensive or nonoffensive is mountains out of a molehill.
- Grustaf 5y agoAgain, my suggestion was to use different words, instead of just removing them.