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What did avatar mean before a picture on a screen?
What do you notice?
English, including screens
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Sanskrit: a sacred descent
अवतार
The screen sense is late. The religious word is not cancelled.
Avatar is a Sanskrit word. On screens it now means a stand-in picture.
The older meaning is a descent. The computer sense is late. It does not cancel the religious one.
If you click an avatar, you are using a sacred word in a new job. The first meaning is still used. Both can be true at once.
You can stop here. The word already moved.
Go find a traveling word
The screen was the door.
More ways to look outside