[Lexicog] archaic entries

[David Tuggy]

Wow. Backwards from me. I understand archaic as old and antiquated, but 
obsolete as practically never used, except by those purposefully 
studying old words. An obsolete sense of a word could not be used 
without engendering misunderstanding, whereas an archaic sense might 
well, in context, still be understandable.

Anyhow, this proves that when we use the categories we'd better define 
pretty carefully what we mean.

--David Tuggy

Wayne Leman wrote:

> I think that both obsolete and archaic are useful lexicographical 
> categories, but must reflect actual usage of a language community, not 
> the views of a lexicographer working in the abstract.
>  
> I understand archaic to refer to a form which is not in use by anyone 
> currently speaking a language. I understand obsolete to refer to a 
> form which is in use by a very small number of speakers of a language 
> and is probably on its way to becoming archaic.
>  
> Wayne
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>     It might be worth asking how various people differentiate
>     "archaic" from "obsolete" while we're at it.
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