Article about Entertaiment
In a culture where media is constantly changing, many of the familiar forms we use to entertain ourselves have proved resilient. They have a tendency to re-appear in new contexts, demonstrating an almost unlimited potential for creative remix. The word entertainment derives from the Latin inter-tenere, and is related to ten, the Indo-European root for “stretch.” The prefix inter means “inside” or “close to,” while the suffix ten implies that the object being stretched is held inside.
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