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[–] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago (18 children)

An interesting tangent. The term broadcast for radio comes from farming and broadcasting seeds when planting. Podcast naturally evolved from that term. I'm imagining the podcast they listened too is called "Peas In A Pod." with talking peas discussing plant facts.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I like the german word for broadcast: rundfunk or literally "spray around"

[–] elvith 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not really. It's a composite word consisting of the word "rund" (round, circular) and "Funk" (wireless, radio). So basically it just means circular radio [waves] or [sending/emitting] radio [waves] in all directions.

Which is quite literally what a Radio or TV broadcast does.

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