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About a hotel break-in, while in the White House. Not in a hotel. But -gate has long since genericized into a suffix for scandal/coverup, it's not going back.
by gojomo 6y ago
About a hotel break-in, while in the White House. Not in a hotel.
But -gate has long since genericized into a suffix for scandal/coverup, it's not going back. Maybe someday it'll be replaced by something better – but that'd require some affirmative new coinage that signifies the intended meaning(s) even better.
- mannykannot 6y agoAs it happens, the situation described in the article hardly counts as a scandal or coverup, either - about the worst allegation that can be drawn from it is poor QA or process engineering.
- toyg 6y agoUnfortunately, it's Apple themselves who effectively expanded the meaning of -gate when they refused to acknowledge the antenna issue in an iPhone version (5, iirc). They were trying a coverup ("you're holding it wrong!"). Antennagate transitioned -gate into "large-scale hardware manufacturing problem that company won't admit", and here we are.