zoetrope
zoetrope
Dr. Goodword,
I would really like to see your take on this interesting word. I have looked it up, of course, but it seems to have an interesting history, and I'd love to see what you can dig up, please?
I would really like to see your take on this interesting word. I have looked it up, of course, but it seems to have an interesting history, and I'd love to see what you can dig up, please?
The moving-picture gizmo called a zoetrope was invented in the 1830s as the "Daedalum," or Devil's wheel. In the late 1860's, it was re-invented separately in the U.S. and England, and its U.S. inventor gave it the name "zoetrope," which probably caught on because the competing gizmos had names that nobody could pronounce. I think the word was coined at that time (1867) from the Greek words for "life" and "turn," suggesting a "wheel of life."
Beck
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zoetrope
Thank you, Beck
I had read about the invention in one of the definition references and of the Greek origin of the word, but that prompted further curiosity for me, remembering a Disney movie I watched with my children, and I guess that one of my questions for Dr. Goodword, is why you cannot refer to the moral of the 'Lion King' as being 'zoetropic', which appears to be a non-acceptable word in the dictionary, and I don't understand this. Help?
I had read about the invention in one of the definition references and of the Greek origin of the word, but that prompted further curiosity for me, remembering a Disney movie I watched with my children, and I guess that one of my questions for Dr. Goodword, is why you cannot refer to the moral of the 'Lion King' as being 'zoetropic', which appears to be a non-acceptable word in the dictionary, and I don't understand this. Help?
zoetrope
Thanks for pointing that out, Beck. The thought occurred to me, if it takes no license to participate in the 'circle of life', I guess it makes sense that I don't need one to coin new terms describing it!
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And wine-making (they are losing their dominance in the world market because of this,) and cheese-making, and, and, and every other aspect of their socialist lives. I hope they wake up before it's too late, because if there is an Eden that blesses Mankind with all the necessities of life in a small place, it is France. In fact, the Great Leap that produced the modern human mind a thousand centuries ago probably occurred in what is now France.
Beck
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Gallia omnia in partes tres.........
or whatever Caesar said about it. It is very unfortunate
that is one western culture about to sink below the
"l'eau'. Sarkozy is under the gun right now.
California Zinfandel has surpassed something in France, I read the the other day. We even have grapes in this
ungodly part of the country with fine winerys.
or whatever Caesar said about it. It is very unfortunate
that is one western culture about to sink below the
"l'eau'. Sarkozy is under the gun right now.
California Zinfandel has surpassed something in France, I read the the other day. We even have grapes in this
ungodly part of the country with fine winerys.
-----please, draw me a sheep-----
It won't be long before people wishing to see classic French culture will have to peer into a zoetrope or some similar device. (Again, I am clearly herding our commentary back toward the appropriate barn.)
Beck
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As the culture of Europe recedes into the 13th Century, thanks to its fecund new citizens, I was imagining that movies, as we know them, and all other artifacts of the modern world as well, will slip into oblivion. A zoetrope may well become the penultimate thrill in entertainment; the ultimate, of course, being public stonings and beheadings.
Beck
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