2020-11-11
23 分钟The fact is that these are now kind of mythical figures from popular entertainment and from novels and movies.
We've got these terms and now they've kind of colored our own view of history of what we think happened back then.
So long as we can meet, get in touch with, make the acquaintance of,
be introduced to, call on, interview or talk to people, there can be no apology for contact.
Coming up on Word Matters, Bounty Hunters, and a few controversial verbs.
I'm Emily Brewster,
and Word Matters is produced by Merriam-Webster in collaboration with New England Public Media.
On each episode, Merriam-Webster editors Neil Servin, Amon Shea, Peter Sokolowski,
and I explore some aspect of the English language from the dictionary's vantage point.
The Bounty Hunter is a powerful figure in fiction.
We see him saunter through tumbleweed towns and grapple with complex moral codes in the barren landscapes of a galaxy far,
far away.
The figure is in fact so powerful that its ties to history are accepted without question.
But when we look at the history of the term bounty hunter,
we find that it's not quite what we thought.
Here's Peter Sakalowski on a word that Hollywood built.
The world of Star Wars is a visual world.
It's a musical world.
But it's also a world of vocabulary, it seems to me.
And one of the points that is striking to me about Star Wars is that it's this fantasy,