When we see th a train, we know
what they mean: wir haps less clear where
they come from.
I guess they are a variation on “hi-fi”.
Hi-fi was itself once
the latest thing.
Before CDs and digital sound, a hi-fi music system gave
us access to the radio and...
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When we see th a train, we know
what they mean: wir haps less clear where
they come from.
I guess they are a variation on “hi-fi”.
Hi-fi was itself once
the latest thing.
Before CDs and digital sound, a hi-fi music system gave
us access to the radio and our own music.
It was short for “high fidelity”.
I have no idea how that works for “wi-fi”!
The word fidelity comes from a Latin root.
It means faithfulness or loyalty.
Just as in art a painting could be a faithful copy of an original master, so
in music a recording was said to be an accurate version of the original
sound.
The highest fidelity came closest to the original performance of the
band or singer.
The best system was most faithful to what the first
audience had heard.
The connection between faithfulness and faith seems to be getting lost in
our society at the moment.
There is much discussion about the place of
“faith” in public life, but only ever in the sense of belief or religion.
But in
his book on “Reading Paul”
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