Emic, etic

I'd shuffled "emic" and "etic" into the bin with the pseudo-scholarly ramblings of Foucault and Derrida. Now that these days I'm less hostile to Foucault, Prof. Davila suggests to us we revisit emic and etic, on the Palestine issue.

Since my focus as a Justinianist is deep into the Roman era, I just use "Palaestina" for the region. "Tertia", out where the Arabs are at.

At base, this is why I restrict "AD" to mediaeval ℭ𝔥𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔫𝔱𝔲𝔪. Not only do Muslims and Maya not acknowledge our Dominus - the Christians weren't acknowledging His calendar, either. They used the Seleucid count. "AD" is, thus: etic. "AG" for the Seleucids is emic, as is "AH" (albeit also rather etic before 'Abd al-Malik's Caliphate) and the year-of-the-colony if we're talking preIslamic Araby.

On the flip side, etic language is why Erik Larson's publisher "Crown" is demonic, and why Larson should self-publish if he has a shred of honor left in him. They know what they did.

I'm not really here to please anybody, and I suspect neither is Davila - which is why I follow his blog.

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