The letters that Aaron has come up with are really interesting as I hadn't seen them before. I'm really excited to see them as they are definitely fleshing out the early days. However, I'd still appreciate a pointer to the earlier discussion as something is nagging at the back of my mind about something that was mentioned in it and I can't remember what it was!
Dave On 23 June 2013 21:42, Richard G Elen <[email protected]> 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<https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound> > As of 1st October 2012, I have retired from the University. These are my own views and may or may not be shared by the University Dave Malham Honorary Fellow, Department of Music The University of York York YO10 5DD UK 'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130624/a680e06c/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
