"digi[ta]lante"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 4/22/2013 11:06 PM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>On Apr 22, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>
> > Because digilante sounds better.
> >
> >
>i.e. much more like "vigilante"

I knew that.  However, all the crowd-sourced video was
digital-anted.  (Put into the pot electronically.)

Joel


>LH
>
> > On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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> >> Subject:      Re: "digi[ta]lante"
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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
> >>
> >> 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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