Word: cogito
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When John Paul visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, he was obviously stirred by the photographs of bomb victims and the heat-fused chunks of stone and metal. He paused for a full three minutes at the visitors' book before he wrote, "Ego cogito cogitationes pacis et non afflictionis, dicit Dominus." (It was a paraphrase of Jeremiah 29:11, "For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction...
Russell Baker seems to have taken a wild swing at Descartes's Cogito, ergo sum when he came up with Televiso, ergo sum -"I am televised, therefore I am." Since "I am televised" is in the passive voice, his Latin verb, derived from video, videre, demands the same form. The correct version of his attractive thought would therefore be Televideor, ergo...