Two of the most degraded words in conversations today may be “culture” and “community.” When it’s possible to talk about “Gamer culture” and the “online gamer community,” someone has taken a serious wrong turn down a dead-end road. When a member of your “online community” will baby-sit your kids in an emergency, or bring you a casserole when a family member dies, I’d love to hear about it.
Small print: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” is of course Inigo Montoya’s line in The Princess Bride, commenting on a character’s repeated description of events as “inconceivable” – even events that are happening before his eyes.