Well, OP, at least you’re not calling them Monophysites. 🙂

The Greek Wikipedia, and as far as I can tell the Greek Orthodox Church, refers to Oriental Orthodoxy as Pre-Chalcedonian Orthodoxy (Προχαλκηδόνιες Εκκλησίες – Βικιπαίδεια). Of course, a church who thought Chalcedon got it wrong is not going to call itself that.

Orthodoxy – Wikipedia points out the following:

The Homoousian doctrine, which defined Jesus as both God and man with the hypostatic union of the 451 Council of Chalcedon, won out in the Church and was referred to as orthodoxy in most Christian contexts, since this was the viewpoint of the majority. (The minority nontrinitarian Christians object to this terminology).

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Following the 1054 Great Schism, both the Western and Eastern Churches continued to consider themselves uniquely orthodox and catholic. Over time, the Western Church gradually identified with the “Catholic” label, and people of Western Europe gradually associated the “Orthodox” label with the Eastern Church (in some languages the “Catholic” label is not necessarily identified with the Western Church). This was in note of the fact that both Catholic and Orthodox were in use as ecclesiastical adjectives as early as the 2nd and 4th centuries respectively.

Note also the title of the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria:

Pope and Lord Archbishop of the Great City of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Orthodox and Apostolic Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle that is, in Egypt, Pentapolis, Libya, Nubia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and all Africa.

Orthodox also shows up in the title of Ignatius Aphrem II of Antioch; in Syriac it’s presumably calqued:

English: His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East and Supreme Head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church

Syriac: Qaddišuṯeh ḏ-Moran Mor[y] Iḡnaṭius Afrem Trayono Paṭriarḵo ḏ-Anṭiuḵia waḏ-Kuloh Maḏĕnḥo w-Rišo Gawonoyo ḏ-ʿItto Suryoyto Triṣaṯ Šuḇḥo ḇ-Kuloh Tiḇel

Arabic: Qadāsa Mār ʾIġnāṭīūs ʾAfrām al-Ṯānī Baṭriyark li-ʾAnṭākya wa-Sāʾir al-Mašriq wa-Raʾīs ʾAʿlā lil-Kanīsa al-Suryāniyya al-ʾUrṯūḏaksiyya fī al-ʿĀlam

What this tells me is:

• Orthodox was the name Christians who felt they were not heretics called themselves from the 4th century.
• The Chalcedonian churches called themselves Orthodox. The Miaphysite churches, I’m assuming, would have retorted that they were Orthodox. If the Syriac for Orthodox is a calque, that certainly tells me that Syriac Miaphysites were well aware of the term, and happy to use it for themselves.
• To go by the title of the Coptic Pope and the Syriac Patriarch, they certainly regard their see as Orthodox, and likely have done so for a very long time.
• After the Great Schism, Western Christianity moved away from the term Orthodox, and went with Catholic instead. There was no move away from the term Orthodox in the Miaphysite churches; and Roman Catholic activity in the Middle East would have discouraged them from retaining Catholic.

This question has been asked and answered recently by someone else, but: Quora is agnostic about a banned user’s questions (or answers for that matter). Even if a user is banned for troll content, it is not assumed that all their answers are trollish, and those answers need to be reported, to be evaluated for collapse or deletion, separately.

That goes even more for questions, which once written belong to the community (to be reworded at will).

Yes it’s more work. I’d rather that work than the alternative over indiscriminately removing anything ever asked by a user, and making all the answers anyone has ever given inaccessible.

I’ve already written Nick Nicholas’ answer to How can one use the word “Quora” in a limerick? But how could I pass up an A2A from Vicky?

1. I would have felt much jubilation,
   had Quora sent notification
   that User
   limericked mentioning me;
   but @-mentions… lack mitigation.
2. So, there once was a young synaesthete
   who gained fandom with Quora’s elite.
   She’s regaled us with stories
   of her working girl glories
   and entranced us with jokes indiscreet!
3. When on Quora, I write unabashed.
   A2A me? I’ll give it a bash!
   I make friends near and far,
   and I follow my star.
   But UX fails shall sting to my lash.
4. Where the erudite gather to grumble,
   and the recondite rally to rumble:
   where the droll draw their japes,
   and the heroes their capes:
   there you’ll find me, in rough and in tumble.
5. “Share and grow the world’s knowledge,” said D’Angelo,
   crisp as bacon, and sharp as a tangelo.
   Yet on Quora we socialise,
   because knowledge, we realise,
   is much harder to pin down than flan jello.

Thanks, Martin!

I went to my mobile; I didn’t even know that feature was on there. (And why it would be on mobile not desktop is puzzling.)

164.

I am not conscious or discriminate about topics I answer, although there are no-go areas for me—science for example. I don’t have humanities training as such (linguistics does not comport itself as a humanities), but the answers I enjoy most are those where I venture into cultural studies or history, armed with a couple of Wikipedia pages and my own good sense, and try and make sense of a narrative.

But I do have core topics of competency, and I write more about them than others. I do worry that I write too much meta-content (Quora), especially as my Quora answer count has recently overtaken my Greek Language answer count. But I don’t find that results in me choosing not to answer a question about Quora. The way I manage my mountain of A2As is to take my time about getting to them: if someone else has gotten to one before me, and has done a good job of it, I can cross it off my list in good conscience.

I do feel bad about not answering enough questions about programming, and none about IT policy; but I’m not used to doing it (despite Miguel Paraz’s best efforts).

Are there topics I won’t answer despite being knowledgeable about them? No, not really. I’m just not circumspect in that way. I barely even correct myself here…

Originally Answered:

What are some major social faux pas to avoid when visiting Australia?

Sitting in the back seat of a cab. I occasionally see Indian cab drivers unaware of the unspoken egalitarian norm here, hurrying to clear their crap from the front seat. But by default, if you sit in the back seat of a cab, you are taken as treating the cab driver as the Hired Help.

And yes, the cab driver is the hired help. But woe betide you if you actually act like it.

People of Quora.

I am shocked.

No, shocked I tell you. I am blown away. I am flabbergasted.

Verklempt, even.

Orphaned answers: No Notification

Herein, I had posted a month ago about the fact that we get no notification that questions we have answered have been deleted.

Well, we do now:

… I’d hate to think Quora UX got the idea from me…

We can. Anyone can answer anything about anything, Quora’s creeping credentialism notwithstanding.

As a Quora reader, you have the responsibility to weigh against each other peoples’ credentials, answers, tone, and the exchanges they have in comments (including errors and disagreements pointed out there).

Obvious, but confirmed:

Marcia Peterson Buckie [es]

Marcia Peterson Buckie [en]

• Looks like questions have been seeded into French Quora by machine translation; reportedly that has also happened in the Spanish Quora. Réponse de Alexandre Coninx à Les premières questions de la beta de Quora en français ont-elles été écrites par des robots ou traduites aléatoirement ?
• The French sounds odd to some: Est-ce que c’est juste moi, ou est-ce que les questions et réponses sur Quora en Français ont l’air bizarre pour vous aussi ? That’s reportedly not primarily because of bots, but because the users are not all native speakers, a bunch of native speakers are long-time residents abroad, and a lot of native speakers are used to the style of the English Quora.
• Wow, Habib le toubib comes across very different in French. So… courtois!
• Speaking of which: BNBR in French is Soyez Courtois Soyez Respecteux.
• They’re using vous instead of tu in French Quora. Les Quorans francophones devraient-ils plutôt se tutoyer ou se vouvoyer entre eux ? That’s not going to happen on the German Quora, I presume.
• The limit of 300 characters on a question shall not be relaxed for the more prolix French language. Réponse de Sihem Soibinet-Fekih à La limite du nombre de caractères dans une question sur le Quora Français a-t-elle été adaptée en fonction du taux de foisonnement ?
• Sihem Soibinet-Fekih: “International Writer Relations chez Quora (2017-présent)” (What, they don’t translate job titles in Mountain View?) At least she cited Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux in defence of the 300 character limit, which wins her points. Whether Boileau would welcome the twitteresque (and maudit anglaise) char limit is a different matter.
• The site is very new, and the questions aren’t grabbing me quite yet, but I’m seeing a lot of potential, and it’s not just French Politics 24–7.

Laura Hancock and Vicky Prest, especially when Laura changed her profile pic to what basically looks identical to Vicky’s profile pic at small resolution.

I said *small* resolution.

In fact, I saw a selfie on a post by Vicky once, and was about to comment “hey, I thought you never posted pictures of yourself”—only to realise oops, Laura.

And I think it’s more the profile pics than anything else. I mean yes, they have some similarities: both cool, both non-het, both sex positive, both “outspoken”; but really, not *that* similar.