drive-by grammar nazi!

[rone]

Remember how cyber- was the prime affliction in the late `90s among heinous neologisms?  Now it's -erati.  These fragmentary words MEAN NOTHING.  DO NOT USE THEM.  Leave such heinousness to President Bush, so he may announce a meeting with his cyberstrategerati.

EDIT: Results 1 - 50 of about 240 for cyberati.  Someone's gonna pay.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

That one's been around for a while (Garbage's Version 2.0 came out in `98), but "Web 2.0" has definitely reached "I NEVER FUCKING WANT TO HEAR YOU SAY THIS AGAIN EVER EVER" levels.

What set me off with -erati is "technorati", "digerati", and what i read today: "blogerati".

[palecur.livejournal.com]

The term of art among the cognoscenti (that's a whole word, not an affix bolted on to a harmless existing morpheme) nowadays is 'pajamahadeen'.

[iayork.livejournal.com]

Who said blogerati? Can I kill them?

Please? I promise I'll do it slowly.