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I found out today from listening to NPR's Rewind show that the term blog comes from "web log". Makes sense.
Not that I've ever used the term. You may think I'm blogging right now, but in my mind all I'm doing is updating my live journal, you know?
I mean, it's kind of an ugly word to my mind. Inelegant. A word that you shouldn't use in polite society.
In my mind I hear Beavis and Butthead laughing. "Hehehe, you said 'blogging', hehehehe...".
It makes me think of barfing, and of blotting, as in ink spilling on paper. So I guess in some ways the term blogging conjures up images of people spilling ink and spilling their guts all over the desktop, which in some sense is what a lot of people do with these online journal things.
Blogging was one of the hot terms most used this last year. The one that actually won -- no surprise here -- was "weapons of mass destruction".
They also talked about newly coined words and phrases. Walking pinata. That was a term applied to Trent Lott this year. Embetterment was a new word that the President used several times, as in "the embetterment of the people of the world". It's a lot like betterment, only mangled in a uniquely Bushian way.
Their best new word of the year was Iraqnaphobia. But I also liked the term Apatheist for someone who believed that god/the gods exist but are irrelevant.
Anyway, it's Friday night, work's pretty much done. I should clock out and go home.
I found out today from listening to NPR's Rewind show that the term blog comes from "web log". Makes sense.
Not that I've ever used the term. You may think I'm blogging right now, but in my mind all I'm doing is updating my live journal, you know?
I mean, it's kind of an ugly word to my mind. Inelegant. A word that you shouldn't use in polite society.
In my mind I hear Beavis and Butthead laughing. "Hehehe, you said 'blogging', hehehehe...".
It makes me think of barfing, and of blotting, as in ink spilling on paper. So I guess in some ways the term blogging conjures up images of people spilling ink and spilling their guts all over the desktop, which in some sense is what a lot of people do with these online journal things.
Blogging was one of the hot terms most used this last year. The one that actually won -- no surprise here -- was "weapons of mass destruction".
They also talked about newly coined words and phrases. Walking pinata. That was a term applied to Trent Lott this year. Embetterment was a new word that the President used several times, as in "the embetterment of the people of the world". It's a lot like betterment, only mangled in a uniquely Bushian way.
Their best new word of the year was Iraqnaphobia. But I also liked the term Apatheist for someone who believed that god/the gods exist but are irrelevant.
Anyway, it's Friday night, work's pretty much done. I should clock out and go home.
