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From: jimb@ISM780B.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: GRAPHICS
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Date: Thu, 9-Jan-86 11:53:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  9 11:53:00 1986
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Nf-From: ISM780B!jimb    Jan  9 11:53:00 1986



The usage of graphic I find disconcerting, too.  However, the usage is
derived from "graphic arts"; i.e., the words and numbers are produced by
(electronic) graphic arts techniques, as opposed to live video.  In graphic
arts lingo, such a production is called a "graphic."

The sportscasters seem to have picked up on this specialized use of the term.
(Sportscaster:  What is it?     Graphic Artist: It's a graphic.
 Sportscaster:  Oh.)

Unfortunate.



      -- from the bewildered musings of Jim Brunet
		  (married to a graphic artist)


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