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Etymologies
- After Ned Ludd, an English laborer who was supposed to have destroyed weaving machinery around 1779.
Examples
“Anyone who pointed out that he lacked relevant experience, never having managed in England or at international level, was labelled a luddite Little Englander.”
“Did I really just get called a luddite by a guy who wants to roll economic policy back to the child labor days?”
“Before you accuse me of being a "luddite," let me tell you I get it.”
“But aside from the public relations issues that come with being branded a "luddite," there are real dollars and cents issues at play, as well.”
“With my husband's dismissal of the idea as "luddite", I decided to go to my in-laws weekly family lunch instead.”
Kirsten Dirksen: Barter Markets: Can Trading Beef for a Backpack Keep Consumption in Check?
“Abbott, a "luddite" for appearing to have nothing to do with his party's technology policies, on a day in which the Canberra press gallery also criticised the Opposition Leader on the issue.”
“Characterising a movement that has a massive web presence including multiple Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Youtube accounts as "luddite" does very little for your credibility as "someone who understands what words actually mean".”
“In popular parlance, a "luddite" is a person who despises or fears things that are designated technology.”
“This doesn't drastically change the Sony PRS v. Kindle dynamic, it could help Sony's readers appeal to a certain special kind of luddite: the one who is somehow fine with eBooks, but for whom contemporary fiction and fancy "Whispernet" technologies, "nice screens" and”
“luddite' move - rather, it's looking forward, rather than being chained to the problems of possessing that 'thing in the corner'.”
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jeffrey.t.whitney's list
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oona's list
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Slam Fodder
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She cut off my internet access for a week ... so I missed a week of Wordie :-( You now know she is evil incarnate so please slander her ruthlessly on this list.
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Volkz's list
nycanthro Then there's Culluluddite, for those who fiercely believe cellulite diminishes attractiveness. Mar 4, 2009
Prolagus @ AbraxasZugzwang:
The word is celluddite, of course. Apr 25, 2008
nicsims -Any of a group of British workers who between 1811 and 1816 rioted and destroyed laborsaving textile machinery in the belief that such machinery would diminish employment.
-One who opposes technical or technological change.
Sep 17, 2007
abraxaszugzwang is there a word that means "anti cell phone"? Jan 26, 2007