On 23/06/2013 21:22, Gerald Wilson wrote:
they had settled on that terminology after some debate and apologised for mixing Greek and Latin roots; but Felgett pointed out that a precedent had been set by the term "television", which in a grammatically pure world would be called either "Procul-vision" or "tele-opticon".
Hmmm. But "Ambisonic" consists solely of Latin roots: "ambi" "surrounding, encircling," from ambientem (nominative ambiens) "going round," present participle of ambire "to go around," from amb- "around" (see ambi-) + ire "go"; and "sonic" from sonus "sound".
There was, however, discussion at the time that one problem with "quadraphony" was that it mixed Greek and Latin roots and that it should by rights have been either "Quadrasonics" or "Tetraphony".
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