> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of P. J. Alling > Sent: 30 September 2007 19:30 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Chicken or Egg Photo Story - NY Times > > The official reason was to record for posterity. Propaganda remember
> literally means truth. > Propaganda literally means things to propagate. Truth is neither here nor there. In fact, used for ideas it is a metaphor, rather similar to the way broadcast is a metaphor when applied to radio and TV transmission. Propago, -are, -avi, -atum, verb transitive, to propagate, to extend, to prolong. Propaganda is the gerundive - a 'verbal adjective', passive. It is formed by adding -nd to the root, and adding the appropriate gender ending -us, -s, -um. It carries with it a sense of duty, or necessaity. Cato famously used a gerundive in all of his speeches, which he ended with the phrase "Carthago delenda est" - Carthage must be destroyed. Thus propag- -anda: things to be propagated, extended or prolonged. It is the same (Latin) grammatical form as agenda, which literally means things to be done. -- Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
