Blogfoul

I'm the last person to chastise someone over their abuse of our humble language. Considering that our language is rife with foreign words, malapropisms and spoonerisms that become de rigeur, and other little twiddles and vittles, it seems wholly inappropriate to even rebel this trend. Given the pseudo-shibboleth I spout from time to time, my propensity for dialect-laden, profanity-laced diatribes, and my general ignorance towards proper grammar, this may seem all the more arrogant. But people, it has to stop.

Today, I was reading a rebuttal in an ongoing debate about UN efficacy and their various policy-making offices. This debate has been heated at times (with one decorated author claiming his counterpart must have performed a "selective lombotomy" on his writing), and has spilled over into a weekly "Crossfire" style podcast. The dialogue this week was interesting and had me quite engaged, until this came along:

"Our diavlog will be posted on Sunday."

Why does this enrage me so? Because not only did I completely understand the word, not only did I not need to re-read it, but that now we must have words which identify not only what we will be doing (having a "dialog"), but also which medium ("video"), and which distribution mechanism ("vblog", or "video blog").

I will now go back to my Excel spreadsheets and Word documents soaked in red ink.

Nobody has posted in a while...

Hope everybody is doing okay!