Talk:Cerata/@comment-26868068-20151028052422/@comment-192.76.8.27-20151119034537

The joke, my dear children, is that the word "glaive" is probably a corruption of the Latin "gladius". Though it refers to spears in the original French, asserting old meanings as "the real meaning" is known as the etymological fallacy - assuming that the origin of a word should dictate current use. The picture of the gladius is continuing the etymological fallacy to its logical extreme, and thus mocking you.

Note also that the word originally referred to any spear,  before acquiring the meaning you selected later, in the 16th century. It also picked up another meaning, which is the only one that it still has in formal modern French and English - which is "a sword", though it's a bit of a poetic way to refer to that.

Basically almost everybody on this thread is wrong, including the people AFTER the person who pointed out how wrong you were and mocked you for it.

Thanks for listening bbz!