vulgarisateur 的词源

1933年，约翰·布坎（巴伦·特威兹缪尔）和哲学家C.E.M.乔德在英语中推广了这个法语词，因为他们发现英语中没有一个合适的词来形容“那些清晰、生动、有力且准确地传播他人获得的知识和智慧的人”[乔德，1948年]。而vulgarize当时已经在贬义上使用（参见vulgar）。

It has been pre-eminently the age of the vulgarisateur in the best sense of that word. I think the tendency wholly admirable. Lord Rutherford used to say that no conclusion which he ever reached was of any use to him until he could put it into plain English, into language understood by the ordinary man. Attempts to present the history of the world as an interrelated intelligible process, or to give a bird's-eye view of the long march of the sciences, may be faulty in detail, with many arbitrary judgments, but they do furnish principles of interpretation which enable the reader to find at any rate one way in the world of thought—perhaps a little later to make his own way. In this task the vulgarisateur may be preparing the soil for a rich future harvest, just as the work of the Sophists cleared the ground for Plato. [Buchan, "Memory Hold-the-Door," 1940]

这无疑是vulgarisateur的时代，且是这个词最好的含义。我认为这种趋势非常可贵。拉塞福德勋爵常说，他所得到的任何结论，直到他能用简单的英语表达出来，用普通人能理解的语言来描述，才对他有任何帮助。试图将世界历史呈现为一个相互关联、易于理解的过程，或者提供科学发展历程的鸟瞰图，可能在细节上存在缺陷，有许多武断的判断，但它们确实提供了理解的原则，使读者至少能找到思维世界中的一种路径——也许稍后能找到他自己的道路。在这个任务中，vulgarisateur可能正在为未来丰硕的成果播下种子，就像智者们的工作为柏拉图铺平了道路一样。[布坎，《记忆，门神守护》，1940年]