On 5/11/06, Steve Bennett <stevage(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 5/11/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan(a)tobias.name>
wrote:
Hank: Aren't you adorable? We're all
about to be shot as escaped
prisoners, and you're reciting my entry in the Wikipedia. I hope
you're proud of her, Homer. She's great!
I think Wikipedia has achieved the pop-cultural
status of being
suitable for mention in humorous (and not entirely flattering)
contexts; it seems to have a connotation something like "I've
achieved a shallow, superficial, and quite likely inaccurate
understanding of a subject the lazy way... and I'm damn proud of it!"
I also notice that in popular usage, it's often "the Wikipedia",
whereas we tend to just say "on Wikipedia".
Steve
I see this all the time too, and I can't understand it, people don't
say "I looked it up in the Encyclopedia Britannica", they say "I
looked it up in Encyclopedia Britannica". It's really quite strange
that they wouldn't use the same construct for wikipedia..........
--Oskar