06-22-2009, 01:05 PM
Hermeneutics. A very interesting word.
In the 4th Century BC, there was a traveling scholar from Germania, Hermann, who went from place to place listening to speeches, and analyzing how the speakers had delivered their message. He began to develop a methodology for convincing people through words, and became so good at it, that it became a new technology of sorts. He published his works and spread the scrolls around wherever he went, even opening some schools of oratory. Three points and a conclusion was the general structure.
Soon, orators began to use his formula whenever they delivered a persuasive argument in public. Other scholars, once they realized the technique the speaker was using would smile, nod their heads and say "Hermann New Techs again." And so the word was born. Amazing, ain't it? How's that for extemporaneous pseudo?
In the 4th Century BC, there was a traveling scholar from Germania, Hermann, who went from place to place listening to speeches, and analyzing how the speakers had delivered their message. He began to develop a methodology for convincing people through words, and became so good at it, that it became a new technology of sorts. He published his works and spread the scrolls around wherever he went, even opening some schools of oratory. Three points and a conclusion was the general structure.
Soon, orators began to use his formula whenever they delivered a persuasive argument in public. Other scholars, once they realized the technique the speaker was using would smile, nod their heads and say "Hermann New Techs again." And so the word was born. Amazing, ain't it? How's that for extemporaneous pseudo?
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
