Dear
Mark,
On a regular basis you refer to casino entertainment
as gambling. The industry refers to it as gaming.
Who’s right? Steven S.
Depends
on the prejudiced authority. My bias, Steven, is that
of an irreverent syndicated gambling columnist and
player advocate—hence, it’s gambling. My
dear friends who still work in the gambling industry
in upper-management have an intoxicated partiality
toward gaming. But this juicy morsel crossed my desk
compliments of Bob G., a reader of the Traverse City
Record-Eagle. Bob sent me an Associated Press article
written about the literary folks
at Lake Superior State
University. compliments of Bob G., a reader of the
Traverse City Record-Eagle. Bob sent me an Associated
Press article written about the literary folks at
Lake Superior State University. The school has an
annual list of misused, overused and useless words
and phrases it wants to banish from the English
language. Lake Superior releases this list each
Jan. 1 after gathering thousands of submissions
nominated from academia, business, journalism, politics,
the military and sports. On their 22nd annual list
is gaming. Comments: Gaming. Used to seduce people
into thinking they’re not really gambling.
