Wordie: Blog: Comments

Comment by jameshome, 9 months ago

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:40:50 +0000

"oh man, I'm really sorry, that last round of shots got right on top of me and I totally blogged into your philodendron."

Comment by seanmeade, about 1 year ago

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:58:30 +0000

hate the sound of this word

via peterme

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:35:11 +0000

"For What It's Worth
I've decided to pronounce the word "weblog" as wee'- blog. Or "blog" for short." April/May 1999.

http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000205.html

Merriam-Webster 2004

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:58:51 +0000

Perhaps not pretty, but useful

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 19:03:28 +0000

To each their own, but jonjonz, but I hope you don't boycott Wordie when I start one. It needs a place to archive annoucements, and "page for brief messages, in reverse chronological order, on which one can leave comments" is too, well, wordy. Also, what do Content Management Systems (CMS's) have to do with the price of eggs? A worse linguistic crime than a useful abbreviation is the proliferation of useless tech jargon, especially when in the form of acronyms.

Sound versus Meaning

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:46:13 +0000

Aside from seanahan's valid rebuttal, I think that you've made a substantial error, jonjonz, by confusing the properties of sound and meaning. You begin your tirade "It sounds like..." (refering to the sound) but end it by talking about pride, which (you say) refers to the meaning. Be clear what you are talking about.

As an aside, "Vanity Press" would surely not be appropriate for a digital medium, no?

Shakespeare?

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 14:32:39 +0000

Shakespeare made up a ton of words, and some of them sounded pretty awkward. Saying that he wouldn't like this word is ridiculous. Whatever arguments you may have against the word, you need to separate it from a completely meaningless assertion that Shakespeare wouldn't like it.

Comment by jonjonz, about 1 year ago

Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:15:22 +0000

This word is an abomination. It sounds like someone took a long, painfull, smelly, and uncomfortable dump and left the results with misplaced pride for others to revile. The use of this word marks the user as pretentious, shallow and most of all vain. "Vanity Press" is more accurate. Most people who use the word cannot explain the difference between a web page created using CMS, or hand coded. I am sure William Shakespeare would never stoop to coming within 10 feet of anything with such an abhorrent perversion of the language.