8 May 2004Exiled to Cyberia"Cyber" bothers Erica:
cyber
Er, I guess it's more of a prefix. cyber- No, it can be used as a word. cyber That's how I hate it most. But I hate it as a prefix, too. It's easy to hate. As I once said:
"Cyberspace" itself was a reasonable coinage, its forebear "cybernetics" having been established for a good half-century or so by now, but not everything lends itself to being cyber-ed not that anyone will be dissuaded by that simple fact.
Then again, I suppose it's a good thing we're overworking a prefix, instead of a suffix, this time. If I hear of just one more political scandal referred to as Something-gate, I swear I'm going to cyberbarf. Which I've done rather a lot in the eight years since I posted that. |