December 18, 2009

STRAY THOUGHT

Just wanted to give a little shout out to Richard Nixon.

If it hadn't been for him, we wouldn't have the lexical shortcut of appending "gate" to scandalous events to indicate that they are... scandalous events.

For example, ClimateGate would have to be referred to with the annoyingly copious verbiage of "the Hadley Climate Research Unit Temperature UK Global Warming Email Scandal".

BLECH!

Imagine how much ink could've been saved in 1922 if the Harding administration wrestled with DomeGate.

Lexical economy, how I love thee.

posted by Harvey on December 18, 2009 at 10:07 PM | Permalink | 0 Liars | TrackBack | Ponderings
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