Meta

28 January 2016

My grasp of the English language isn’t as wide, deep, or rounded as I’d like it to be. I know lots and lots and lots of words but occasionally some have meanings that elude me. Some long, some complex, some ridiculously short but tricky as…

‘Meta’ was one such word.

The current Wikipedia definition states:

“Meta (μητά-) (from the Greek preposition and prefix meta- meaning “after”, or “beyond”) is a prefix used in English to indicate a concept which is an abstraction from another concept, used to complete or add to the latter.”

It’s a small thing in a big thing, which makes reference to the big thing and which makes the big thing complete, but without which it wouldn’t be.

This post, for instance; it wouldn’t be complete without a reference to…

But no, I’m not going to. For that would be very silly indeed.