It is strange how words change people's perceptions. Benjamin Whorf famously observed that people treated empty drums as empty, even if they were highly explosive, with petrol (gasoline) fumes inside. Today I had to hand over my "camera" as I entered a court. They asked me, too, whether I was a journalist -- which shows that they were switched on (a journalist may carry a camera in court). However, there were any number of people walking into court with cameras which were just not called cameras but "smartphones" -- possibly more capable than my own camera -- and I myself walked into court with a camera called a "netbook computer". OBSERVATION: I may be a journalist, too, by definition, but not a registered one.
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