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An opinion that got stapled before it could be edited.
means A small, unbound booklet — usually just a few pages — making an argument or giving information on a single subject, meant to be printed cheaply and spread quickly.
from Traces back to 'Pamphilet,' a nickname for a wildly popular 12th-century Latin love poem called 'Pamphilus, seu de Amore.' The poem circulated so widely in cheap, unbound little booklets that people started calling any small stitched-together work of that size a 'pamphilet,' which wore down over time into 'pamphlet.' So the word for hasty political arguments began as the name of a single steamy romance that everyone happened to own a copy of.
- origin
- named after a 12th-century Latin love poem, Pamphilus
- golden age
- fueled the American Revolution before Twitter existed
- length
- technically under 48 pages, by UNESCO's own rules
- legacy
- ancestor of the blog post, minus the comment section