 "Emic" and "etic" are derived from the linguistic terms phonemic and phonetic, respectively, where phonemics effectively regard elements of meaning and phonetics regard elements of sound.The possibility of a truly objective description was discounted by Pike himself in his original work; he proposed the emic/etic dichotomy in anthropology as a way around philosophic issues about the very nature of objectivity.The terms were also championed by anthropologists Ward Goodenough and Marvin Harris with slightly different connotations from those used by Pike.