Entertaiment is a huge topic of discussion and a massive industry that has grown into an empire of its own. Trying to write an article on this topic for the Fall 2011 issue of Transformation Entertainment News was daunting. It was not the work that was difficult, but it was the willingness to tackle such a voluminous subject matter. The word entertainment is actually derived from the medieval Latin intertenere, meaning “to hold inside.” TEN is also the abbreviation for the Indo-European root of the verb tenere, which means to stretch or maintain. [1]
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