On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 12:43:14PM -0700, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 2:39 AM, v4hn <me@v4hn.de> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:54:32AM -0700, Jonathan Jones wrote:
> > > And, you know, broadcasting, which is the transmission of audio and/or
> > > video by modulating the frequency and/or amplitude of an electromagnetic
> > > wave being sent from a radio transmitter.
> > >
> >
> > ... which is only the third definition of "broadcast (verb trans.)"
> >
>
> It's the first definition on Collins English
> Dictionary<http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/broadcast>
> , Vocabulary.com <http://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/broadcast>, MacMillan
> Dictionary<http://www.macmillandictionary.com/dictionary/american/broadcast>,
> Wiktionary <http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/broadcast>,
> Dictionary.com<http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/broadcast>,
> and pretty much any other dictionary you'd care to look up, and it's the
> SECOND in Merriam-Webster<http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/broadcast>,
> not the third. [the adjective, not the verb]
>
Ok, first off, there seems to be a tendency to interpret the noun and adjective
more often as relating to television than the verb/adverb and order differs throughout
your links. More importantly, _EVERY_ page you lists also points out that there is another
usage of the word meaning "make publicly known/spread out".
Do we have a different word for this concept (which in my opinion is more general
and completely includes television/radio)? And no, {benji} does not solve this, because
you can broadcast something by making it available to others without transmitting it yourself.
If not, it doesn't make sense to restrict {tivni} ba'e that much and I would even vote
for adjusting the definition from "to television receiver" to "receiver".
v4hn
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