Re:Astronauts enter China's space station [video]
by kuschku on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:53AM
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According to that, literally means figuratively, too.
Sometimes linguistic prescriptivism is necessary to keep a language actually understandable, and to ensure it makes sense, and doesn’t just become thousands of independent statements that you have to learn by heart.
Re:Astronauts enter China's space station [video]
by areyousure on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @10:11PM
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That ship sailed long ago.
"Astro- a combining form with the meaning “pertaining to stars or celestial bodies, or to activities, as spaceflight, taking place outside the earth's atmosphere,” used in the formation of compound words:"
It sounds like the Greek(?) meaning has been lost now in English, which is fine since it's a different language. Astronomers still sometimes look at other planets afterall.