A friend online asked me what I was doing.
“Blogging for yesterday,” I replied.“Blogging. as a verb. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”
“Yes, sometimes.”
“Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo, say it ain’t so.”
“Not always. Usually ‘posting an entry’ or ‘writing’.”
“Writing is good.”
“But ‘blogging’ is succinct. Besides, today I’m not writing. I’m posting a drawing.”
Several friends have complained that ‘blog’ is ugly (and it is). But it’s a losing battle for the “the word’s weblog, not blog” crowd. Google has 155 million instances of weblog; and 488 million of blog.
Blog as a verb is a useful summation of a variety of actions - writing, proofreading, image creation/editing, file uploading and pressing submit buttons—in a particular context, the weblog environment. I can’t think of another single verb that does the same.
Until someone comes up with one, I will use “blog” as a verb and make my friends cringe.
Posted by kuri at October 25, 2005 10:51 AMI have no problem with using “Blog” as a noun and then conjugating as a verb. A person recently cringed when I used “Google” as a verb as in “I will google it”.
A living language is fluid and neologisms should be embraced as it means that people are communicating in a creative fashion and expressing their lives . Indeed it makes my life as a dictionary maker/supplier difficult as we need to keep up with all the new words.
But it is a labour of love after all.
All the boring “stick in the muds” with their green biros and poo-poo-ing of new ideas can remain in the dark ages as far as I am concerned.
Posted by: T on October 25, 2005 02:59 PM“stick in the muds”????
Nooooooo!
It should be “sticks in the mud”!
I use google and blog as both nouns and verbs practically every day…. I need these words!!!! Bugger the scorn, im using them!
Posted by: j-ster on October 26, 2005 11:10 AMeh a rose by any other name…..
Posted by: MJ on October 26, 2005 01:04 PMThese days nouns are being turned into verbs willy-nilly, and it usually does make me cringe. I especially hate “fooding” and “gifting”.
But “blog”, despite being an ugly word, is perfectly valid as a verb. Certainly beats “Composing a post for my weblog”.
