An anon is someone who engages with Q on an anon basis. Plenty of people know who I am, just as plenty of people know who you are. Heck, some of them may very well be participating here.
But do they know that you = tstr? Probably not. Likewise, of many who know who I am in real life, virtually none know who Fractalizing Iron is.
two:
Point is, linguistically speaking, the expression "anon" is derived from the word "anonymous" but it is by no means synonymous with anonymous. It has a new, generated meaning and therefore occupies a different place semantically within the English lexicon.
(Linguistanon here. "semantics" is in fact the field that deals with the identification of "meaning" in linguistic structures.)
Yah, nah.
one:
An anon is someone who engages with Q on an anon basis. Plenty of people know who I am, just as plenty of people know who you are. Heck, some of them may very well be participating here.
But do they know that you = tstr? Probably not. Likewise, of many who know who I am in real life, virtually none know who Fractalizing Iron is.
two:
Point is, linguistically speaking, the expression "anon" is derived from the word "anonymous" but it is by no means synonymous with anonymous. It has a new, generated meaning and therefore occupies a different place semantically within the English lexicon.
(Linguistanon here. "semantics" is in fact the field that deals with the identification of "meaning" in linguistic structures.)