more on -er (UNCLASSIFIED)

[victor steinbok]

One more -er--or maybe two. It seems a National Review editor, Jay
Nordlinger ponders the meaning of "teabagger".

A summary at TPM:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/to-teabag-or-not-thats-still-the-question-for-conservatives.php

Original piece:

http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=Mjk1YmRjNzIxNmUwMTI0ZWYxZWU4OWU2MzFiOWJmNDE=

As David Kurtz wrote on the TPM mother blog:

'Teabagger' Is The New 'N****r'!

VS-)

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> Benjamin Zimmer said
>>> I believe, it would be inappropriate to delve further into theoretical
>>> musings on global warming (or lack thereof) on this list. [snip]
>>
>> To bring things back on-topic, I see that AGW deniers have taken to
>> calling their opponents "global warmists" or simply "warmists." ...
>
> Bill Mullins said
>> I've seen it also called "Climaquiddick", as well as "Climategate".
>
> There is a term that is used by global warming skeptics/deniers to
> label their adversaries that ends with -er. However, the -er ending
> was not attached recently:
>
> warm monger, warm-monger or warmmonger.
>
> I found a blog posting about the attempt to use the suffix -aquiddick
> or -quiddick instead of -gate to designate a scandal.
>
> Citation: Blog posting "No more “-gates” to dub scandals" at "Armies
> of Libration", February 8, 2005.
> Here is an excerpt from the posting:
>
> A commenter called WMD at the wonderful INDC suggests we change the
> lexicon of the blogsphere and stop attaching the suffix “-gate” to
> reference a scandal, that instead we use the suffix
>
> “a-QUIDDICK”
>
> Thus Eason-gate becomes Eason-a-quiddick.
>
> http://armiesofliberation.com/archives/2005/02/08/no-more-gates-to-dub-scandals/

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