Re:Letter from Unabomber to Dr. David Gelernter (1995)
by eliwjones on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:20AM
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Doesn't anyone remember that it's "UNABOMer"?
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Re:Letter from Unabomber to Dr. David Gelernter (1995)
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @10:24AM
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> Doesn't anyone remember that it's "UNABOMer"?
No, the FBI investigation was named “UNABOM”, the popular media name assigned to the perpetrator before he was identified, inspired by that, was “Unabomber”.
“UNABOMer” seems to be an attempt to preserve the sound of the latter while making it more consistent with the former, but is historically inaccurate.