Something-gate?

[badseed1980]

So, reading some news articles on Sarah Palin brought up the word "Troopergate".

Anyone else slightly annoyed at how all political scandals become "Something-gate" these days? It just gets on my nerves.

Incidentally, I mostly think of the Watergate as the place where I used to go grocery shopping when I was in college. It was only a few blocks from my sophomore and senior dorm, and there's a Safeway and a CVS in there.

Comments

[welshbard.livejournal.com]

This phenomenon has been around since the original Watergate, oh these 35 years ago. The next one in the U.S. was Koreagate in 1976 (see this Wikipedia reference (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koreagate)).

I noticed only four "Gate" scandals have been associated with this campaign.

[zzbottom.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have found it quite annoying for some time, now. It would be one thing if the "gate" in "Watergate" was a stand-alone word, and not a compound one. It would also make sense of the "gate" had had some relationship to the actual scandal, but it doesn't.

And while we're on the subject, why are "addictions" all "-aholics"? "Aholic" isn't, to the best of my knowledge, a Latin suffix meaning "to have a physical need".

Ok, I need a cookie.

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Another good point!

[disownedheidi.livejournal.com]

Well, Whitewatergate was clever, because of the water... but the rest of 'm, yeah.

[paigemom.livejournal.com]

For me, the word "Watergate" will always mean the political scandal.

On the other hand, I was 11 when Nixon resigned...

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, yeah, but beforeI got to DC, the scandal wasn't actually associated with the place in my mind, though I knew where it got the name. Then I got to know the place, and it was more real for me.