Acadēmīa:Fabrica/Archive 1

blogger

Proposal: histologista

Reason: As discussed on Talk:blog with @Logodaedalus, histologista seems to be a very good choice. I would suggest, we should also add blogista in analogy to blōx. My only problem with using histologista/histologion would be that most people don't understand this world immediately. Jācōbus (talk) 11:10, 18 February 2023 (CET)

Thank you! I think that immediate understanding of a word is a secundary problem. The priority in my opinion is to use words with good roots. Logodaedalus (talk) 12:31, 18 February 2023 (CET)

I am also thinking about blōgista as an alternative. This fits to our suggestion blōx which is in my opinion a bit more intuitive. Any opinion to this? Jācōbus (talk) 13:24, 18 February 2023 (CET)

May I suggest blōgifex? Lūkās (talk) 15:09, 20 February 2023 (CET)

The analogy to words like artifex or opifex is immediately clear. However, I am not sure if it fits. With the suffix -fex (<facere) the craftsmanship is in the foreground, but does the management of a blog fall under craftmanship? Jācōbus (talk) 15:20, 20 February 2023 (CET)

Well, I would argue the act of blogging includes more craftsmanship than the work of a pontifex. There also appears to be Middle Latin sortifex (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sortifex#Latin), which has no connection to craftsmanship whatsoever, and New Latin already seems to have appropriated retifex (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/retifex#Latin) for a networker.

And isn't any skilful blogger to some degree a wordsmith? Lūkās (talk) 16:28, 20 February 2023 (CET)

You have at least convinced me to create an entry for sortifex and retifex. I think then that blōgifex no longer sounds so artificial. Let's wait and see if others want to comment it. Jācōbus (talk) 08:35, 21 February 2023 (CET)

Summary: blōgifex will be added. --Jācōbus (talk) 13:27, 26 February 2023 (CET)