When I first started writing this blog, someone told me they thought "blog" was a horrible word. I don't agree.
I think it's great and I'm surprised that it hasn't been used before.
Previously, its only English use was in "Fred Bloggs", a generic sort of everyman character, like "John Doe" in America. But while John Doe sounds like a white collar smoothie, Fred Bloggs was probably a plumber or builder and a bit old-fashioned; I haven't heard the name for a long time.
It's just as well that it hasn't been used much; most similar words such as "slog, flog, bog,etc." are all very coarse, earthy, workaday thingies. Nothing wrong with that, of course, someone's got to do it. But I think "blog" is destined for greater things.
It's already a noun and a verb and it gets mentioned nearly every day on the radio. There are a lot of references to blogs in the current John Prescott story (he claims not to know what they are, by the way).
So blog is here to stay. But it's not enough to know just one word, there are many permutations of the word blog that you need to learn if you want to avoid being mocked by young people in the street.
Here are a few -
Blogosphere - where all the blogs live
Blogerati - people who blog
bloggerisation - induction into blog world
re-bloggerisation - re-induction to blogs for those who have lost their way.
Blogtastic - great
Megablogtastic - one thousand times as great
Blogissimo - great (Continental style)
Bloggin Aids
Blogonium - special paste to smear on your keyboard. It increases your blog creativity by an average of 17.24%
Bloggo - Drink Bloggo to increase your blog creativity.
Also unblocks toilets and removes stains from dentures.
Blogodon - headache pills to counteract the effects of too much blogging.
Blogstopper - large round confection that stops people writing blogs.
Blogshire - fictional English county where everyone writes a blog and no one ever leaves their house.
Bloggingham - capital of Blogshire.
Blogola - form of tombola played by people on the internet.
Dunbloggin - popular house name among retired bloggers
Blogarithm - that rhythm you makes as you taps out those bloggy words.
Bloghole - where lost blogs go.
Blogorooney - blog about Wayne Rooney and/or mis-shapen potatoes.
Spudblog - blog about normal looking potatoes.
Bloganalia - artefacts connected with blogging.
Articles of blog attire
Blog socks
Blog hats
Blog shoes
Blog shirts
*A limited number of hand-knitted blogging socks are available at an extortionate price from this site. Leave a message.Please include a return address and don't forget to state how gullible you are.
6 comments:
ooo, I'd love some blogging socks can you send them to
David Blogham
Blogingham Palace
ooo, this is great, I can't wait...
OK, David, I'll get to it.
It may take a while as I'll have to learn to knit first.
Do you mind if I use shop bought wool, or do you want home-spun from my own sheep?
A quick Google search reveals that there doesn't seem to be a guy called Fred with a blog called "Fred Blogs" ANYWHERE ON THE INTERNET! How can this be? Could I be the FIRST person to have thought of this?! What a shame therefore that my name's not Fred.
Oh there's plenty called "Fred's Blog", but it's just not the same. I want to see "blog" used as a verb in the title.
Yeh, I did a Google for Fred Bloggs and he seems to be alive and well and involved in quite a lot of activities. I'm glad to see he's done well for himself.
One British-American dictionary translated him as Joe Blow.
He seems more Fred's kind of guy really. I can imagine them downing a few beers together while John Doe sits at home reading books on management.
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