"digi[ta]lante"

[Laurence Horn]

On Apr 22, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

> Because digilante sounds better.
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i.e. much more like "vigilante"

LH

> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> 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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