December 30, 2003

You Don't Say

An interesting little article here, if a bit snarky, about the annual "Top Ten Word Lists of 2003 Announced by yourDictionary.com"

Part that made me make that face?

2. Blog Web logs have come of age and, regrettably, this lexical mutation with them.

Why regrettably? It's a perfectly serviceable word. I think possibly it must have been written by some smartass little whippersnapper with his pants down around his crotch, a backward ballcap and a hood ornament necklace one of the younger set, because none of the Top Ten Youthspeak Words were sniped at.
("Give it up" for Lynn, who is "Poppins" in my book. )

Posted by LeeAnn at December 30, 2003 07:04 AM
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Ahem. *dusts off soapbox and climbs up* Ya know, how does Mr. Baggy pants think English was created? It's not exactly a "pure" language by any stretch of the word, especially compared to other fusion languages. Most of the words we consider "proper" are stolen from the lowest class citizens of Britain who started colonizing here. Actually, let me shut up before I start spieling on linguistics.

Posted by: Tiffany at December 30, 2003 03:32 PM

Used to be a "hard drive" was 2 feet of snow and no chains for the tires. An "IP address" was the location of the freekin terlet.

So now there's "blog". In the spirit of changing meanings instead of inventing new words I suggest we just re-appropriate "clog" thusly:

clog: Web logs have come of age, much like cheese. "CLOG" is derived from "cheese log".

This inspires true dynamic English phrases such as :

"She recently tricked out her clog."

"More bandwidth was justified to accomodate her clog."

"I often comment on her clog."

"Is that a rice rocket in yer pocket, or are you just poppins to see my clog?"

Posted by: Blob at December 31, 2003 07:48 AM

Heh. He said "poppins".

Posted by: LeeAnn at December 31, 2003 07:54 AM