Our repeated use of hybrid has rendered it a bit opaque to me, so I revisited the dictionary.
Hybrid
Etymology
Known in English since 1601, but rare before c.1850. From Latin hybrida, a variant of ibrida (“a mongrel; specifically, offspring of a tame sow and a wild boar”), of unsure origin, possibly (a) somehow related to Ancient Greek ὕβρις (hybris, “outrage”)[1], or (b) < the roots ús (“sow”) and ibro (“wild boar”)[2]
Might we ask in what ways is a hybrid an outrage? A bastard? Or maybe, instead it is a kind of
The quality that popped out to me in this description was that of a mongrel, the offspring of something tame and something wild. Perhaps this presents a new way of looking at our projects. We've been considering the hybrid as a combination of old/classic and new but I am intrigued by the (possibly) finer point put on it by the tame/wild contrast.
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