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Piwin -> RE: Punctuation Counts! (Aug. 26 2023 1:37:16)
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Sorry. It's just me being sloppy.
Based on the essay RobF linked to, for van Driem it's like this:
- symbiosis: neutral umbrella term that covers all of the following:
- parasitism: beneficial for the symbiont, detrimental to the host.
- commensalism: beneficial for one, neutral for the other.
- mutualism: beneficial for both.
There's a disconnect between his technical meaning of symbiosis and the meaning it has taken on in more colloquial speech. What in common parlance we would call a symbiont, van Driem would call a mutualist symbiont, since for him symbiont on its own does not say anything about whether the relationship is beneficial or detrimental to the host.
With that many colons I'm sure I've broken a few punctuation rules. [:D]
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