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- From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
- To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Our orator
- Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 11:36:52 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> If you haven't already, definitely read Christina Dyrness's interview
> with our own Steven Champeon in today's N&O Biz section. As usual,
> Steven is interesting and articulate.
...in email, and a babbling moron over the telephone :) But thanks :)
> Interestingly, Christina introduces him as "a great online orator".
> While I fully agree in the sense she intended, my semantic brain cannot
> sit still with that usage. This is because the word "orator" comes from
> the Latin root for "mouth": one who uses his mouth. So "online orator"
> is rather a contradiction in terms. He uses his fingers, not his
> mouth. (Actually he uses his head, but the fingers -- or mouth -- form
> the words.)
Well, I move my lips while I type, so it's not /that/ far out :)
> Potential tasteless jokes aside, perhaps a more appropriate word for
> an
> Internet rhetorician -- and I really love this -- is "digitor".
>
> "Steven Champeon: great online digitor." Can you roll with that
> one?
I'd have to say the word certainly describes a type.
Heh.
-
Our orator,
Thomas Beckett, 01/03/2000
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Our orator, Steven Champeon, 01/03/2000
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