We can't continue to fight the good fight any longer; the fight against the use of the grubby and singularly ugly pop terms, blog, blogging, and blogger, by using instead their original forms: weblog, weblogging, and weblogger. The use of the pop form of those terms in all media is now so pervasive that one can succeed only in appearing hopelessly antique or reactionary, and even risk being misunderstood, by an insistence on using the original form of those terms. So, from this date forward, we'll be referring to blogs, blogging, and bloggers on this webl ...., er, blog (Lord!, that hurt!). No point playing Don Quixote any longer in this matter.
We Surrender (Administrative Note)
We can't continue to fight the good fight any longer; the fight against the use of the grubby and singularly ugly pop terms, blog, blogging, and blogger, by using instead their original forms: weblog, weblogging, and weblogger. The use of the pop form of those terms in all media is now so pervasive that one can succeed only in appearing hopelessly antique or reactionary, and even risk being misunderstood, by an insistence on using the original form of those terms. So, from this date forward, we'll be referring to blogs, blogging, and bloggers on this webl ...., er, blog (Lord!, that hurt!). No point playing Don Quixote any longer in this matter.
Score another win for pop culture.
Posted by A.C. Douglas on 30 April 2005 | Permalink