re: #685 Bagua

Etymology is not meaning.

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Damn this is getting complicated, I’m lost…

I meant that the ancient Greek or Latin meanings of an English word’s roots are not always a reliable predictor of what the word means in modern English. “Trivia” comes from the Latin phrase for “an intersection of three roads,” but that’s not at all what the word means NOW.

(How did it get its current sense? Because major road intersections tended to attract common riffraff looking to separate travelers from their money, whether as honest vendors or prostitutes or thieves. And once the adjective trivialis had come to mean “common and suitable for riffraff, instead of the original meaning “relating to a three-way intersection,” from there it was a relatively short step to “useless knowledge.”)