Two new words?

Two new words?

here's an article that Scientific American ran recently:

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Ever since Al Gore invented the internet, wordsmiths have had to contend with a torrent of neologisms. The last two days have been no exception.

Yesterday the BBC reported an effort to conquer a menace--cyber warming--whose failure to roll off the tongue will no doubt be as big an obstacle to progress on reducing energy consumption in the IT sector as any amount of industry inertia. (That is, if you subscribe to the notion that the catchiness of a meme is a powerful determinant of its ultimate propagation--does anyone else remember when 'climate change' was called 'global warming'?)

Today it's the Church of England. Apparently one of their cardinals was bored at work, or was 'doing some research' on the internet or something like that:

Anglican church authorities were outraged by the PlayStation game "Resistance: Fall of Man" that depicts a shootout in the cathedral nave.

"The video footage of the cathedral battle on YouTube has shocked and dismayed us beyond words. They can only be described as virtual desecration," Rogers Govender, Dean of Manchester Cathedral, told reporters.

You catch that? Virtual Desecration.

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http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=sony_invents_new_kind_of_desecration&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&ref=sciam

 

Bob Bendesky

North Wales, PA  USA

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