• Forester@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    Confidently incorrect

    Mariam Webster

    Mascot

    a person(s), animal(s), or object(s) adopted by a individual or groups as a symbolic figure(s) especially to bring them good luck

    Masca

    Indo Germanic

    meaning Mesh face covering. As in netting. A woman wearing mesh netting is where we get the connotations of a witch.

    It’s also the root word of the word mascara…

    https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/masca

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      1 year ago

      Imagine thinking Merriam Webster overrules the Oxford dictionary. Also it still doesn’t refer to a mask, it refers to a veil. You can’t just ignore the word “mesh”.

      A fursona is not a mascot. It’s weird that you’re arguing otherwise.

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        1 year ago

        I think you should reread my comment and you should apologize to your second grade English teacher she was right You do need to work on reading comprehension

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          1 year ago

          You should work on your reading comprehension, the other commenter is corret. Mask isn’t the root of mascot, mascot is borrowed from french.

          Your own source refutes your comments:

          Try to find any source that claims otherwise.

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            1 year ago

            If only you knew how to click the sources button in the wiki link that I linked above… 11 hours ago…

            https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/Maske

            It’s this crazy thing where English being a germanic-based language with heavy French influences can have multiple changes to words meaning a over a thousand years span.

            You are correct that in the 1700s the word you are referring to meant what you said it did. I am referring to the indo Germanic root word of that word. If you’re not familiar the English French and Germanic languages are all Indo Germanic languages.

            https://images.app.goo.gl/FmMcpKZQjp56ucWt9