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Mon, 03 Mar 2008
It's a Political Scandal Suffix Gate - 14:09
I notice a heading in the CT today mentioning the council scandal happening
in Wollongong currently, the headline refers to the scandal as Gong-Gate
(maybe the journalist is simply a huge fan of alliteration, who knows) and it
occurred to me the use of a -Gate suffix really is a bit too common now days.
Of course there is a wikipedia page on the subject of Scandals with a -Gate Suffix, which I can understand. And if you look at the commonly understood usage, that this is for political scandals, sure okay we can use -gate on the stuff going on in Wollongong, but do people really have to use it in so many silly places?
People using the suffix in relation to BAFTA, Nipple, Diana, Camilla, Martha, Sports issues (Kobe, Granny (Rugby), Skating), etc. I think shows a lack of imagination or a lack of real use of this colloquialism. Bit scandalous really</tic>.
