KAFIR

[WinterHold]

The 'real' meaning of a word is determined by how that word is used, not by some semantic archeological enterprise.  You are guilty of the genetic fallacy here.  No, using a word in the manner that it is currently used is not any superiority-complex mixed with ignorance, rather it is you who is demonstrating his ignorance by not understanding how words work.  Both you and Mystic make this same stupid argument, that current usage is in some sense false, and that the preferred usage is some extinct meaning which no longer exists.  You do this because you want to whitewash the truth, to cleanse the ugliness that is Islam by appealing to false arguments, historical revisionism, and a theory of privileging certain Islamic facts over others.  In this you are no different than any other apologist who, unable to deny the ugliness that is Islam, attempt to create a false and non-existent Islam that does not contain the ugliness, and argue that this cleansed version of Islam is the real Islam.  It is not.  Islam is dirty and disgusting, and as its apologist, you're nothing but a hero in favor of Muslim and Arab atrocities.  You are responsible, Atlass.  You are.

Semantic=Meaning.
Syntax=How the word is written.

That's a very straight forward  definition, or let's say:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1793...-languages


Syntax is about the structure or the grammar of the language. It answers the question: how do I construct a valid sentence? All languages, even English and other human (aka "natural") languages have grammars, that is, rules that define whether or not the sentence is properly constructed.
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Semantics is about the meaning of the sentence. It answers the questions: is this sentence valid? If so, what does the sentence mean? For example:

I provided the "semantics". "Kafir" means "disbeliever". Check it left, check it right, it means what it is: I even provided the wikipedia link that proves this, I even quoted the relevant text from the article, but it seems that it's not enough.

It is not about the meaning of the word, it is about that even if somebody brought the clearest evidence but they are Muslims, you would reject what they say.
I won't keep on arguing after the wikipedia that I linked.

[Deesse23]

Semantics is about the meaning of the sentence.

I provided the "semantics". "Kafir" means "disbeliever". Check it left, check it right, it means what it is: I even provided the wikipedia link that proves this, I even quoted the relevant text from the article, but it seems that it's not enough.

It is not about the meaning of the word, it is about that even if somebody brought the clearest evidence but they are Muslims, you would reject what they say.
I won't keep on arguing after the wikipedia that I linked.

Semantic change is about the change of meaning of a word over time.