Dante's Peek - Hackdot

Re:Dante's Peek by dredmorbius on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:10PM (#24974074)

Aside: The Online Etymological Dictionary, to which this blog is attached, is one of the rare true gems of the Internet, and harkens back to the Early Web in both time and spirit.

It's a tool I make heavy use of --- the Mastodon toots hashtagged #OccasionalEtymology are only a very small fraction of these (https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/tagged/occasionaletymology https://mastodon.cloud/@dredmorbius/tagged/occasionaletymolo...)

And it's mostly a labour of love by Douglas Harper. Yes, there are some ads, but the Paypal, Patreon, and Swag links do help out. And if you can contribute to something on the Internet that Does Not Completely Suck, it would be a Good Thing.

https://www.etymonline.com

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Re:Dante's Peek by fenomas on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @08:00AM (#24979214)

Agreed, I love the site greatly as well. As a data point though, the one time I found an error there I mailed the maintainer a fairly detailed writeup with sources, but I never heard back and the entry never changed.

(The error was for "anime", which etymonline has being derived from French, but which Japanese sources widely agree is just an abbreviation of "animation".)

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Re:Dante's Peek by dredmorbius on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:00AM (#24979694)

I've actually had a couple of email exchanges with Doug. Mail might have been caught in a spamfilter or just buried.

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Re:Dante's Peek by pcmaffey on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:36PM (#24974296)

Absolutely. It’s one of those rare sites that I still enjoy “wandering around” on. It’s an archeological park of language and tattered remnants of stories.

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