But so what? There’s loads of words derived from German and from French in the English language, but they are understood and perfectly fine words to use, even in the same sentence. Or consider “television”, where “tele” has Greek and “vision” had Latin origins.
Yeah, I actually like this analogy. I would certainly never post it to LinkedIn, but the concept of building solutions to issues instead of searching for opportunities after building a tool is sound.
Phallic is a word to describe something that is ‘penis-like’. Yonic describes things that are ‘vagina-like’. These terms have legitimate use.
At face value, I don’t think this linkedin page is deserving of ridicule. But I’m not sure what the context around it is.
Too bad they come from two completely different etimologies. Vulvic would be the Greek-derived equivalent.
But so what? There’s loads of words derived from German and from French in the English language, but they are understood and perfectly fine words to use, even in the same sentence. Or consider “television”, where “tele” has Greek and “vision” had Latin origins.
First, we are talking about two paired terms in the same domain being used as opposites, and that is different from the examples you make.
Second, the specific domain here is physiology/anatomy and in this case what you describe is practically never true.
Yeah, I actually like this analogy. I would certainly never post it to LinkedIn, but the concept of building solutions to issues instead of searching for opportunities after building a tool is sound.