글을 보다 보면 텔레비전을 대부분 television set라고 표현하는 걸 볼 수 있는데 이게 왜 그런지 항상 궁금했다. 그래서 검색해보니, 텔레비전의 본래 명칭이 텔레비전 세트라고.
아마도 텔레비전이 고유명사가 되기 전, 텔레비전, 즉, '멀리 보기 위한 기계 모음'라는 의미로 이 기계 세트를 부르지 않았을까 생각한다. 그게 줄어서 텔레비전이란 고유명사가 된 것이 아닐지.
+ 여기에 좀 더 설득력 있는 커멘트가.
"Remember, TV was a direct descendant of radio. Hobbyists had radio (or "wireless") "sets" that were a collection of distinct components: the battery(s) (often several jars of acid, not the small snap-in "dry cells" we all know today), the receiver, an antenna (another throwback monstrosity: often a clothesline-type affair), headphones, and -- if you wanted to transmit too -- a telegraph key. (Which brings up another point... I would not be surprised if radio borrowed the term "set" from the ye olde non-wireless telegraph, another arrangement that required many separate batteries and a key, at least.)
It's no great leap that the lingo that described these early component radios stuck through the era of the all-in-one radio-in-a-box to the age of the TV-in-a-box.
The real question, IMO, is whether "set" was introduced by early radio (or telegraph) practicioners to describe a collection of components (as in, "I have a new set of batteries") or as a shorthand of the term "setup.""
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