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Poststructural Pub
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Word of the Day for Tuesday December 20, 2005

digerati

\dij-uh-RAH-tee, plural noun:
Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.

As high tech spreads outward from Silicon Valley to American society at large and people spend more and more time in cyberspace, the journalist Paulina Borsook steps back to look at the digerati and their view of the world.
–Michiko Kakutani, “Silicon Valley Views the Economy as a Rain Forest,” New York Times, July 25, 2000

[T]his week, over 3,000 digerati will converge at a swank theater where chef Julia Child and pundit Arianna Huffington, among others, will judge 135 Web sites.
–David Whitman, “The calm before the storms,” U.S.News & World Report, May 15, 2000

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Digerati: The Illuminati of the 21st Century.

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… rats! Beat me to it! :laughing:

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You gotta be a pretty fast pull of the gun to beat Slude!

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The Times has made hash of this word’s meaning,
and mispelled it too!

Didgerati are people who play didgeridoos (for crying out loud!)

I blame the liberal media.

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They’re probably still using WordStar, :wink:

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I thought digerati were boys used for choral singing in medieval days. Now I’m confused.

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I think I’m a digeramus. :frowning:

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Myself, I prefer technogentia

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Sounds like cyborgenitalia. :smiley:

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Here’s an obscure word I just picked up yesterday. It’s a word for the material a stereotype (a pretty much obsolete printing process) mold is made of: flong.

What a cool word. Flong.

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Get it on. Bang a Flong. - Yep, it stands up to the T.Rex test of time.

djm

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Ooooo…that is a cool word! I wish I could find a way to use it now.

As for digerati if we had the opposite of that word, that would be me.

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hmmm…ok.