Hi everyone, Have you ever Blogged? What does Blogging even mean? Is there a definition? Lets see---
blog
[blawg, blog]
1.
a website containing a writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having images and links to other websites.
2.
a single entry or post on such a website:
She regularly contributes a blog to the magazine's website.
3.
to maintain or add new entries to a blog.
4.
to express or write about on a blog:
She’s been blogging her illness for almost a year.
They even have the origin -
Word Origin and History for blog
blog
n.
1998, short for weblog (which is attested from 1994, though not in thesense "online journal"), from (World Wide) Web + log. Joe Bloggs (c.1969)was British slang for "any hypothetical person" (cf. U.S. equivalent JoeBlow); earlier blog meant "a servant boy" in one of the college houses(c.1860, see Partridge, who describes this use as a "perversion of bloke "),and, as a verb, "to defeat" in schoolboy slang. The Blogger online publishingservice was launched in 1999.
OK straight from the online Dictionary? Who writes these evidently not Webster? Spell check? or maybe a copy and paste issue. The author must not have included spaces or did the computer make a mistake?
A corrected version: (By a Human)
blog
n.
1998, short for weblog (which is attested from 1994, though not in the sense "online journal"), from (World Wide) Web + log. Joe Bloggs (c.1969) was British slang for "any hypothetical person" (cf. U.S. equivalent Joe Blow); earlier blog meant "a servant boy" in one of the college houses (c.1860, see Partridge, who describes this use as a "perversion of bloke "), and, as a verb, "to defeat" in schoolboy slang. The Blogger online publishing service was launched in 1999.
OK - Looks like they invented the word in 1998? What makes it a word and who decides the definition and should it go into the dictionary?
According to the origin a Blogger is a hypothetical, Joe Blow, servant boy that is defeated?
I might be some Joe Blow, defiantly not a servant boy or defeated! (And I know how to use spell check- LOL - Is this a new word?)
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Penny M.
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