Pet peeve

[ohiotuber]

Those ingested corn kernels of yours reminds me of a blog

Steve

...Yeah...an "intestinal" blog!
I STILL can't understand the purpose of a blaaa...oops, blog, when we HAVE a forum! Yeah, that's right, I am NOT a "technological whiz kid".
Mike

[MontanaMoose]

....'blogage'? It must have been great back in Neanderthal time (you know, Troglodytes) when all a guy needed was one word repeated twice to get everything he needed.

Cheers,

MontanaMoose

[fivedials]

Steve,

Don't you mean "Yadah, Yadah, Yadah"

Jim

[DShock]

Steve,
I think "Blogs" are out of control;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
It's Justin's Fault! Quote;The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. A few called themselves "escribitionists". The Open Pages webring included members of the online-journal community. Justin Hall, who began eleven years of personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers,[5] as is Jerry Pournelle." End Quote.
Doug

[DG]

"This all being said, I now unequivocally state that as of 1:16 pm (Pacific) on the 22nd day of September (the autumnanal equinox) in the year 2007 AD (or CE, whatever your preference), there were approximately 995,112 words in the English Language, plus or minus a handful. " (http://www.languagemonitor.com/wst_page7.html)

"Richard Lederer, a lion among linguistics, tells us that English is the most cheerfully democratic language in the history of mankind. It has 616,500 entries in the Oxford English Dictionary. This compares with a vocabulary of about 185,000 words for German, 130,000 for Russian, and 100,000 for French. Yet the average English speaker possesses a vocabulary of 10,000 to 20,000 words, Lederer observes, but actually uses only a fraction of that, the rest being recognition or recall vocabulary." (http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academi...lism/chal.html)

So, Steve, if we assume you have 20 thousand words in your vocabulary, out of the million or so (rounded for ease of math after 11 pm) in the language, you are only using 1/50th (or 2%) of the language. If you put the word "blog" into the other 98% of the language that most of us don't use, alongside such obviously common terms as "obsequious" and "perspicacious", then you don't have to worry about it any more. Easy, no?

Oh, and according to Merriam-Webster online,

blog
Pronunciation:
\ˈblȯg, ˈbl?g\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
short for Weblog
Date:
1999
: a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments, and often hyperlinks provided by the writer
? blog?ger noun
? blog?ging noun

PS I don't think "autumnanal" is a real word

[Steve Molcsan]

Steve,
I think "Blogs" are out of control;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog
It's Justin's Fault! Quote;The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. A few called themselves "escribitionists". The Open Pages webring included members of the online-journal community. Justin Hall, who began eleven years of personal blogging in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers,[5] as is Jerry Pournelle." End Quote.
Doug

Doug,

Yours has been the most enlightening and helpful information.
I certainty was not expecting to gain anything useful from my post
but may have. I would not want to use this blog thing as a personnel account of my life. Boring for one thing!!
I do have some rethinking to do, hopefully not much....

I appreciate you Doug!

Take care....

Steve

PS, DG thanks too!