Secret Lives of Words: Tenet, ABBA, and tattarrattat By Rick LaFleur Columnist Having taken up wordsmithing at the tender age of 11, when I signed up for my first Latin class, it’s unsurprising that my heart skipped a beat when I first heard about the movie “Tenet,” released to streaming last month. Not only was it another sci-fi puzzler from writer-director Christopher Nolan, who had given us “Inception” (2010) and “Interstellar” (2014), but its title was in origin a Latin word, tenet from tenere, “to grab hold of or grasp.” A TENET is a belief we hold onto with TENacity and whose truth we TENaciously mainTAIN.
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