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calimac ([personal profile] calimac) wrote in [personal profile] andrewducker 2023-11-14 09:28 pm (UTC)

"Television? The word is half Greek and half Latin. No good can come of such a device."

- C.P. Scott, allegedly (but probably not)

(In Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, A.E. Housman makes a similar objection to the word 'homosexual'.)

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