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Anonymous = name not known, roughly speaking. Nominally, its antonym would be nonymous, not onymous. The rest of the article is fine. Basic idea: Use Tinder p
by PeterWhittaker 12y ago
Anonymous = name not known, roughly speaking.
Nominally, its antonym would be nonymous, not onymous.
The rest of the article is fine. Basic idea: Use Tinder pic for Google image search, find person.
Real gist: Anonymity is tricky to maintain if people know your face.
- netrus 12y agoWhat's the problem with onymous? It's in all main dictionaries - nonymous is not (besides UD). Sure, it might not make sense looking at the Latin origin, but that's how language evolves.
- PeterWhittaker 12y agoIn fact, I've just learned something: My Greek etymology was all wrong, onymous is correct, nonymous is nonsense. I'd taken the "a" as the "not" (as in "atom"), when in fact the word being negated is "onoma", meaning "having a name". I'd snarked early and ignorantly, thanks for pointing out my error.