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A lot of people now get their education from TV and a lot of it is wrong.
My most hated word is 'decimate' which is used to mean 'totally destroy.'
Even though some of the educational programmes explain that, back in the Rpman
army, the most severe punishment was to 'decimate' a legion or to kill 1 in 10
from the Latin word 'decim' = 1/10th.
Some other words I can live with like 'normalcy' and the like which were
invented by President Eisenhower in the 1950. The correct word, 'normality' is
still in use in the UK and 'down under'. so, no big deal.
One of the biggest howlers is from the Greek word 'paedo' = a child below
puberty. tied in with the word' philia' which means loving or caring about,
quite a flattering word really. The more correct version was the American
Paederasty, which is far stronger and comes from 'erastos = erotic love'.
It was still seen as a joke and was, infact, used as part of a song from the
musical Hair. I cannot quote it on here except to say that the end of the
first verse went 'father, why do these words sound so nasty ?' which rhymrd
with 'pederasty'.
According to the late G4EBT who had been a magistrate, who really knew his
law. the words 'paedophile and paederast' are never used in law as they are
too imprescise.
Yet television, convinced everybody that they are correct, English words.
I wonder if John Logie Baird who did hope that TV would be educational, gave
any thought to the possible misinformation everyone would be exposed to if TV
became the most powerful source of propaganda on earth. Sadly,TV perpetuated
the myth thay JLB did not invent television, which would have probably upset
him but he died in 1946 just as TV was restarting after WWII so they could say
what they liked about him and his co-worker Philo T Farnsworth who invented
the image dissector camer and held the master patent to electronic TV. Much to
the displeasure of RCA.
I think, 'Bring back better education/' Not necessarily inflicting Latin and
Greek on suffering adolescents but, at least, teaching better English.
73 - Ian, G0TEZ @ GB7CIP
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