Good point. Maybe he was apologising for NOT mixing Greek and Latin roots...
(It was a long time ago...) GWW On 23 Jun 2013, at 21:42, Richard G Elen wrote: > 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". > > --Richard E > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
