2021-01-05 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – Satellite

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2021-01-05

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – Satellite

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ออกเสียง Satellite = ‘SAT-l-ahyt’

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

'Satellite' Associates Become Stars

'Satellite' takes on a new old meaning.

Satellite came up on our radar

following numerous reports of the word

having been used by President Donald Trump,

as recounted by former FBI Director James Comey.

According to Comey,

he was told by Trump that

“if there were some ‘satellite’ associates of his who did something wrong,

it would be good to find that out, but that he hadn’t doneanything wrong.”

—David Lauter, The Los Angeles Times, 7 Jun. 2017

Although it is little used today,

the earliest meaning of satellite was considerably different

than the one we commonly find today

("a manufactured object or vehicle

intended to orbit the earth, the moon,

or another celestial body").

Beginning in the early 16th century the word,

which comes from a Latin word meaning "attendant" (satelles)

had the meaning of "a hired agentor obsequious follower."

Whan this treatoure satellyte was entred with his company & had broken into the inwarde edifices: diuers of them serched for the prince Hiempsall: som murdred his seruauntes as they lay slepynge in theyr beddys suspectynge no suche treason.

—Sallust, Here Begynneth the Famous Cronycle of the Warre (trans. by Alexander Barclay), 1525

Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary

Satellite

Originally a satellite was a follower.

Astronomers applied the term to smaller bodies orbiting about planets,

like our moon.

Then we began launching artificial satellites.

Since few people were familiar with the term in its technical meaning,

the adjective “artificial” was quickly dropped in popular usage.

So far so bad. Then television began to be broadcast via satellite.

Much if not all television now wends its way through a satellite at some point,

but in the popular imagination

only broadcasts received at the viewing site

via a dish antenna aimed at a satellite qualify to be called “satellite television.”

Thus, we see motel signs boasting:

AIR CONDITIONING,

SATELLITE

People say things like “the fight” s going to be shown on satellite.”

The word has become a pathetic fragment of its former self.

The technologically literate speaker will avoid these slovenly abbreviations.

*At least motels have not yet adopted the automobile industry” s truncation

of “air conditioning” to “air."