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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You gotta be a pretty fast pull of the gun to beat Slude!Joseph E. Smith wrote:... rats! Beat me to it!jsluder wrote:Digerati: The Illuminati of the 21st Century.
“First lesson: money is not wealth; Second lesson: experiences are more valuable than possessions; Third lesson: by the time you arrive at your goal it’s never what you imagined it would be so learn to enjoy the process” - unknown
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Myself, I prefer technogentiaDaleWisely wrote: digerati \dij-uh-RAH-tee\, plural noun:
Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.
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Sounds like cyborgenitalia.fearfaoin wrote:Myself, I prefer technogentiaDaleWisely wrote: digerati \dij-uh-RAH-tee\, plural noun:
Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.
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Oh, yeah: also a mod here, not a spammer. A matter of opinion, perhaps. - Location: Lefse country
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Ooooo....that is a cool word! I wish I could find a way to use it now.Nanohedron wrote: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.
As for digerati if we had the opposite of that word, that would be me.
Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.
When I paint my masterpiece.
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Re: I like this WORD-OF-THE-DAY
hmmm....ok.Joseph E. Smith wrote:Sounds like cyborgenitalia.fearfaoin wrote:Myself, I prefer technogentiaDaleWisely wrote: digerati \dij-uh-RAH-tee\, plural noun:
Persons knowledgeable about computers and technology.
