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<< Quoting Ian G0TEZ to WORDS @WW >>
> From : G0TEZ To : WORDS @WW
> Type/Status : B$ Date/Time : 24-Sep 22:56
> Bid : 320296G0TEZ Message # : 14199
> Title : TV Howlers.
>
> A lot of people now get their education from TV and a
> lot of it is wrong.
Hello Ian, and congratulations on launching an interesting
topic...
> My most hated word is 'decimate' which is used to mean
> 'totally destroy.'
Never thought of my most hated word.
> 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.
Given the brutal ways of the Roman Empire, I wonder who were
really the barbarians, and who really was the better at being
brutal. Where it comes to the Legion, I can see what they
are thinking, as how many did march on Rome for a reason?
> 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.
Ian ...they say every generation coins their favorite word.
> 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'.
As Portuguese is so close to latin and is called sometimes
modern latin I hear thse words from Maria and other Brasilians.
Interesting.
> 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'.
I can not remember "Hair". I am sure you will get the answer.
> 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.
"Late" ? I hope not, I hear from David, once in a while, and
some photos too. Miss him on Packet, but then I miss quite
a few.
> Yet television, convinced everybody that they are correct,
> English words.
TV hires what the government has educated via the schools, and
how they are taught by approved books for teaching, is ...well
I rest there.
> 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.
How true!
> 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
>
> Message timed: 23:56 on 2013-Sep-24 GMT+1
>
> Message sent using WinPack-Telnet V6.80
>
> [End of Message #14199 from G0TEZ]
Ian. I see in Wales, they are teaching Welsh in schools. So , since
there are other areas that make up the British Isles, both independent
and self-whatever or governed from London < Westminister> then too
I would assume they are now learning their historical native tongues.
Interesting ...
Thank you for the posting ...I really thought you were over in Holland.
73 Peter VE3WBZ
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