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Re:Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics’ IP... by derleth on Friday March 08, 2013 @01:33PM (#5344919)
Also, 'television' is not a word.
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Re:Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics’ IP... by ZoFreX on Friday March 08, 2013 @04:07PM (#5345746)
What?
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Re:Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics’ IP... by derleth on Friday March 08, 2013 @04:15PM (#5345773)
It's a barbarism, a mixing of Greek and Latin roots into the same word. Barbarisms are errors in usage.

"'Television' is one of the most recent offspring of linguistic miscegenation." -- Leslie A. White, The Science of Culture, 1949

http://grammar.about.com/od/ab/g/barbarismterm.htm

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Re:Copyright Trolls Order Wordpress To Hand Over Critics’ IP... by ZoFreX on Saturday March 09, 2013 @11:11AM (#5348730)
It's in the OED, that's good enough for me!
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