That's exactly WHY it's retarded, the scandal had to do with a robbery, the name of the hotel was WATERGATE, as ONE FUCKING WORD. Why the retards of the world focused on the "gate" part of it is beyond me.
Might as well call every scandal "hotel", then. It'd make as much fucking sense.
Give it maybe a generation, and you'll see tards conflating Watergate with the Nestle scandal, and claim that it was about Nixon telling Afreaka it has no right to clean water or some shit. Just watch.
Lidocaine and prilocaine have the "-caine" suffix to denote their chemical similarities to cocaine, this despite the word "cocaine" being "coca"+"ine", so the "-caine" suffix is a gibberish half-word plus a normal suffix. It's kind of dumb and nonsensical, but it works.
Language is a weird thing. Neologisms are like memes, you never know which one is going to catch on until you're neck-deep in it, and you can't stem the tide. Good heavens, it's all I can do to push back against the greengrocer's apostrophe.
Well, that's because cocaine is peculiar to the coca plant, and "cocaine" is just the name of that substance itself, and novacaine and the rest are actually based on cocaine, so that's basically Latin at work.
And a "meme" was originally just meant to denote ANY idea that can spread (like a gene, after which the concept was modeled and named). Dawkins referred to ideologies as "memeplexes", or collections of (presumably related) memes, but alas, I know damn well that most fumducks that (mis)use the word never read the book that mentions them in the first place.
For example, the Ten Commandments would be a memeplex, with each Commandment being a meme (It's wrong to kill, it's wrong to commit adultery, etc.)
Why does every fucking American scandal have to be "gate"?
"Watergate" had nothing to do with water, but that naming scheme implies it did. Fucking retarded.
That's just basic meme-o-logy.
It was called watergate after the hotel involved in the incident after that gate has basically meant scandal
That's exactly WHY it's retarded, the scandal had to do with a robbery, the name of the hotel was WATERGATE, as ONE FUCKING WORD. Why the retards of the world focused on the "gate" part of it is beyond me.
Might as well call every scandal "hotel", then. It'd make as much fucking sense.
Give it maybe a generation, and you'll see tards conflating Watergate with the Nestle scandal, and claim that it was about Nixon telling Afreaka it has no right to clean water or some shit. Just watch.
You seem to care a lot more about a simple bit of language development than the massive voter fraud this post is about.
Well, I'm not American, and the fraud doesn't surprise me at all.
Lidocaine and prilocaine have the "-caine" suffix to denote their chemical similarities to cocaine, this despite the word "cocaine" being "coca"+"ine", so the "-caine" suffix is a gibberish half-word plus a normal suffix. It's kind of dumb and nonsensical, but it works.
Language is a weird thing. Neologisms are like memes, you never know which one is going to catch on until you're neck-deep in it, and you can't stem the tide. Good heavens, it's all I can do to push back against the greengrocer's apostrophe.
Well, that's because cocaine is peculiar to the coca plant, and "cocaine" is just the name of that substance itself, and novacaine and the rest are actually based on cocaine, so that's basically Latin at work.
And a "meme" was originally just meant to denote ANY idea that can spread (like a gene, after which the concept was modeled and named). Dawkins referred to ideologies as "memeplexes", or collections of (presumably related) memes, but alas, I know damn well that most fumducks that (mis)use the word never read the book that mentions them in the first place.
For example, the Ten Commandments would be a memeplex, with each Commandment being a meme (It's wrong to kill, it's wrong to commit adultery, etc.)
Would you prefer #MaidenDome? It's named after teapot dome and oral sex cosplay.
Actually, I would, and it reminds me more of the DOME PETROLEUM scandal, frankly. Never heard of the pervy version.