"digi[ta]lante"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Because digilante sounds better.

DanG


On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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> At 4/21/2013 10:29 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:
> >I believe, it's the same link I posted earlier in the week.
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> >What I find more interesting is the rise of a different term: digilante
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> Why isn't it "digitalante"?
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> Joel
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> >http://goo.gl/IBous
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> >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:
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> >>http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=2674968
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> >>The Russian connection makes it a bit creepy.
> >>
> >>LH
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