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re: Why does sports media call every controversy " -gate?"
Posted on 5/10/15 at 12:16 pm to emanresu
Posted on 5/10/15 at 12:16 pm to emanresu
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The continued success of –gate shows how English-speakers have welcomed the means to describe any sort of scandalous event with a snappy suffix.
I don't know that we "welcomed" it as much as the media forced it down our throat until we choked on it.
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Posted on 5/10/15 at 1:42 pm to lsutigers1992
Seems like a recurring pattern is happening here.
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