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Originally Posted by CantExplain
He was going back to the Latin roots.
In Rome, "clients" were hangers-on who looked to their patron for advice and protection. They would clap his speeches, boo his enemies and sit at the lower tables in his grand banquets. (Or come in afterwards and collect the leftovers.) In times of disturbance, they would also be street toughs.
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But that is not the same thing as saying that that has anything to do with the present-day meaning of the word, or that "client means vassal". It is equally "true" to say that
client means "bender", since the original root of Latin
cliens "client" is probably
clino, "bend".
If your T feels that "client" is a word he doesn't like to use because of its etymology, and that to him it has an underlying meaning of "vassal" (which is super interesting, because the word "client" has never had that particular meaning!) that is different, and of course it is a valid meaning to that person. I'm glad you mentioned this - it's really interesting to hear.