Re: Bug fix request:(too the censor of the forum)
- Posted by Bellthorpe Oct 05, 2010
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useless said...
Some might say it's an abbreviation of "metaphorical", but since we are discussing the original article and not the article's content, we aren't speaking metaphorically.
I don't see why anyone would say that. It's a well defined prefix. Oxford defines it as (amongst other things) "denoting something of a higher or second-order kind". Example: "metalanguage".
Its roots are Greek ("meta"), whereas "metaphorical" comes from the French (from Latin, from Greek "metapherein").
