Photograph

Photo graph

Photo, Greek phto, light.

graph, Greek graph, writing.

Seems to me that if it's written with light, it's a photograph.

Regards,
Your friendly neighborhood monkey pretending to be a human...
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"Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying
the object which is abused.  Men can go wrong with wine
and women.  Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?"
-Martin Luther
 
From: "Caveman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


> Kenneth Waller wrote:
> > Nah, lets call them  ........IMAGES!!!!!!
> 
> im-age (im'ij)  n., v. <-aged, -ag-ing>
>                n.
>                    1.  a physical likeness or representation of
>                         a person, animal, or thing,
>                         photographed, painted, sculptured, or
>                         otherwise made visible.
> 
> This is the general term that include both photographs and inkjet 
> prints. It's what mammal is to humans and monkeys. Hell, it includes all 
> forms of visual arts.
> 
> If you guys are looking for the general term, it's "image". If you 
> insist in confusing particular instances of it, like pretending that an 
> inkjet print is a photograph, I could as well suspect that you're a 
> monkey pretending to be a human.

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