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Soheil1 Posted 8 years ago
Vocabulary

Theater

Hello.

What's a theater of action? Why do you say theater?


Thanks in advance

  

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You might as well ask why we call a shoe a shoe. Etymology is devilishly interesting, but it seldom bears on modern usage. Words come to mean what they do by a mysterious process.

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  • You might as well ask why we call a shoe a shoe.
  • Etymology is devilishly interesting, but it seldom bears on modern usage.
  • Words come to mean what they do by a mysterious process.
  • The OED is uncharacteristcally unhelpful in this case, its first citation being from Churchill in 1914.
  • The term is older than that.
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You might as well ask why we call a shoe a shoe. Etymology is devilishly interesting, but it seldom bears on modern usage. Words come to mean what they do by a mysterious process.

The OED is uncharacteristcally unhelpful in this case, its first citation being from Churchill in 1914. The term is older than that. It appears in Clausewitz's 1832 On War, or rather in the translation f

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