> From: Dizel <webmaster@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [OM] Learning Order?
> Look at this:
> http://watteau.neurosoft.net/oldies/
> Pretty old but interesting indeed :)
I loved the articles. I guess they were from back when an
amateur photographer was someone who had a darkroom built at his
country estate, and was far superior to anyone who did it in trade.
It reminded me of an 1880-ish British photography book I once requested
from the closed stacks at the Boston Public Library while waiting for
the books I really needed to arrive. The eloquent, flourishy,
compound-sentenced preface ended with "... but that would be to
condescend to the <gibberish>" where the gibberish was two words
written in Greek. Someone I knew who was taking Ancient Greek was
nearby, and he immediately recognized the words. "Hoi Polloi"
I guess the author didn't want to condescend to a fellow photographer
by transliterating the Greek.
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