"digi[ta]lante"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/21/2013 10:29 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>I believe, it's the same link I posted earlier in the week.
>
>What I find more interesting is the rise of a different term: digilante

Why isn't it "digitalante"?

Joel


>http://goo.gl/IBous
>
>Of course, the term is not new. Wiktionary has an entry from almost
>exactly a year ago. UD has one that dates to 2010 and there are several
>blog entries with similar dates. But the cloud-sourcing of video footage
>in the hunt for the bombers is going to serve up a big dose of
>"digilante justice" references...
>
>     VS-)
>
>On 4/21/2013 9:53 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>>I thought I was hearing a not particularly elegant but presumably
>>novel coinage during last week's coverage of you know what, but I
>>just found this:
>>
>>http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=2674968
>>
>>The Russian connection makes it a bit creepy.
>>
>>LH
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