English as a language isnt bound by right and wrong. the language, the meanings. words evolve English absorbs and adapts from other languages., even within English speakers there are differences in meaning, uses and spellings.
The other issue is one that will never be perfect for all case that is in the translation between languages that is because the structures of languages differ, the way in which words are built differ. We have about 300 active language projects not every language has a direct translation for "mania" or even a single word that would describe the intent of "mania" in its current context which is a gathering, a conference, a corroboree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corroboree in the end its not what the parts of the word mean its how we as a community chose to define what the whole of Wikimania means.
On 18 December 2016 at 05:04, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
On 07/11/16 14:50, Lodewijk wrote:
The question would also be:
- is this a significant problem
Yes, I still think this is an issue, since it shows a lack of clarity and correctness in the use of a term in the English language. Below is another example of where a term in the field of mental illness is not well understood, in this case by Piers Morgan.
Guardian, Thursday 15 December 2016 12.53 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/15/ piers-morgan-ptsd-lady-gaga-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-soldiers
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Lady Gaga has told how she was raped at the age of 19 by a man 20 years her senior. “I suffer from PTSD,” she said in a Today show interview on the US network NBC. “I’ve never told anyone that before.” On Saturday, on Twitter, Piers Morgan tweeted a CNN piece headlined “Lady Gaga: ‘I have PTSD’” with his response: “No, soldiers returning from battlefields do. Enough of this vain-glorious nonsense.” He followed this with another tweet to his 5.3 million followers – “I come from a big military family. It angers me when celebrities start claiming ‘PTSD’ about everything to promote themselves”....
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Gordo
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