Intergalactic Summit

I have one small nitpick with this forum, and with the community in general. A simple, small grammatical error that significantly changes the meanings of a lot of what is said and written here.

This is not, in truth, an Intergalactic Summit. It is an Intragalactic Summit. This is one of those subtle nuances of the common trade language that often gets overlooked - so often, in fact, that the erroneous usage (which actually means "between galaxies") has simply become accepted parlance.

I won't be the fellow who scoffs from his ivory tower, de-railing threads to correct anyone who mis-uses the term. I did, however, feel the need to just once express it in public. And now I am done.

Thank you for your patience; flame at will.

Edit: This is, of course, assuming the conclusions of Project Compass 2.0 are correct and Anoikis is in fact somewhere within our galaxy. CONCORD does not endorse these findings; take that as you will, but I trust the numbers.

You were quick on the response, Ms. Ikiryo. Please note my added reference above to Project Compass 2.0 and its findings that Anoikis lies on the far end of our own galaxy. New Eden is but a single cluster. Also, it is noteworthy that this forum pre-dates the openings into Anoikis that so many of us traverse today.

Probably. And, as I said, something I won't mention again. But my background does lie in analysis of the written word. I felt obligated to point it out.

Dear fellow word-lover,

I am sure you are aware of, as I became as I took the class of Advanced Linguistic Philosophy at the University of Caille many years ago, that this is a contested statement. Your position seems closer to that of ideal language philosophers, while a philosopher holding the position of ordinary language philosophy would argue that meaning is use .

Proponents of the view that language is a changing Chimerae where meaning shifts over time would argue either that the real-world[sic] reference of the word Intergalactic Summit now would be only one galaxy, or that the distinction between intra and inter changes meaning in this particular context according to its current use. Whether to use a real-world reference or a word-contextual reference is, of course another debate and I do not wish to derail the thread by going into that here.

Myself, I tend towards the position of ordinary linguistics, and I believe so does most Gallente linguists. In fact, I fear your statement can be viewed as a way to try to aggressively prescribe meanings of words in contrast to a more democratic, descriptive attitude towards them.

In the interest of liberal democracy I thus argue that the current usage of the label Intergalactic Summit should remain a correct way (if there is such a thing as a correct way of using Words, it can only be temporary of course) of using the term and your attempt to undermine its current status should be resisted.

It remains to be seen if this is a pre-cursor to a general attempt by Caldari or Amarr linguists to take control of our common, democratic language. I urge all Federation Citizens and other liberal elements in the cluster to be wary of such attempts and be ready to raise their voices at any signs of such pretensions of linguistic dominance.

On a more personal level, I ask you to step down on this issue, and return to the realms of the study of Language History.

With regards,
Mericot Finweth
Wordsmith Par Excellence
Gallente Federation

The reality is many of us on the Intergalactic Summit live in our own self-contained worlds, galaxies or universes. Therefore it is quite fitting that it is Inter, not Intra.

-Eran

Branding has no respect for literature or etymological musings. But as branding generates a substantial income, even when the product itself is literature or some derivation thereof, branding trumps accuracy. Ergo, Intergalactic sounds bigger, badder and generally more impressive than Intra-galactic. Even the latter would be a misnomer, as we are active within a very small cluster, speaking in galactic terms. Local Stellar Grouping or Cluster Summit sound rather droll.

In short; branding at work.

It is a damned typo nobody noticed until it was too late! If we try to correct it now we have to wade through the paper quagmire! Let sleeping Wolves lie, I implore you! Do not wake the bureaucratic beast!

This post gave me cancer.

Of all the things that could or should concern you about the Intergalactic Summit, you chose this?

This ******* guy.