Mertcan Bulak
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It’s the celebration of the amateur. Amare is the Latin for love, from which we get amiable, amorous and paramour. And if you were doing something for your paramour, you wouldn’t charge for it, would you? The distinction between amateur and professional is merely a distinction between those who love what they do, and those who do it because they are paid.
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Back in ancient Rome, though, they didn’t like women having jobs at all. In fact, almost the only women who had jobs in Rome were the women who stood in front of brothels looking for customers. The Latin for standing in front of things is pro-stitutio .
Back in the 1940s there was a man called Norbert Wiener who was studying how animals and machines communicated with and controlled each other. He decided to call his field of study cybernetics after the Greek word for a steersman. A steersman controls the boat that he’s in: in Greek, he cubernans it. From this the Romans got the idea that a governor who steers the ship of state gubernans it. Even though the B has been replaced by a V in the modern governor , things that belong to the governor are still gubernatorial .
So in 1994 a chap called Ward Cunningham developed a system of making related webpages that would be very simple and very fast. Because it was so quick, he called it wikiwikiweb , because wiki is Hawaiian for fast and the reduplication wikiwiki therefore means very fast indeed . Soon, though, people decided that wikiwiki was a bit of a mouthful, and so it was colloquially shortened to wiki .
The Athenians, as you can tell, were jolly philosophical chaps. This was largely because they had a wonderful education system in which the Greek children, or paedos , were taken through the whole cycle, or cyclos , of learning. Their knowledge was therefore en-cyclo-paedic . The Romans were so impressed with the way Greek children were taught all these different subjects that they started writing books called encyclopaedias that were meant to contain articles on every topic there was.