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MormonTimes.com: Bloggernacle Back Bench: General conference

nit-picky | 10:57 a.m. Oct. 7, 2008

Are there any other English fans out there, who are dismayed and disgusted by stupid new "words" that are introduced into our high-tech culture, like "Bloggernacle"? ("Blog" is bad enough!) There's another local website that regularly uses the word "blogvertorial." Webster must be rolling over in his box!

whatever | 11:46 a.m. Oct. 7, 2008

This is the beauty of English - it evolves and adapts over time. If you are such a purist, you should still be speaking Elizabethian English, or perhaps Middle English, or should we go more "pure" that that? Maybe back to the German? Relax a little, "new" does not equal "wrong."

mensa58 | 12:16 p.m. Oct. 7, 2008

I'm not bothered by it. The words are catchy -- and English is an evolving language. I'm sure many of the words we use now weren't known 100 years ago.
Besides, nobody is forcing me to read anything, if a word bothers me I skip the article.

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Jane Austen fan | 3:27 p.m. Oct. 7, 2008

Nit-picky, I couldn't agree more. "Blog" is OK, because it is a technical term for something that is new, that needed a name. "Bloggernacle" is more like the new corrupted meaning of "begs the question," or the common mispronunciation of "asking" that makes it sound like something done with a large hatchet. Shakespeare is still rolling over in his grave about Harry Truman's "normalcy" and the football pronunciation of "route" that is a homonym for "rout" instead of "root."

Sireofmany | 6:56 a.m. Oct. 8, 2008

People, get over it. Move to France if you want language purity. The beauty of the English language (especially the American version) is its dynamic nature to grow and evolve. New words are a testiment to the liveliness of the language and the people that language represents. If a word is too cumbersome, it will not catch on and will die. If it does catch on, that is a result of the fact that a large enough number of people like and accept the word. Quit crying and grow up.

Boo-hoo-hoo! | 10:18 a.m. Oct. 8, 2008

Who's crying? Just commenting! (-;

I boldly predict that while "blog" has become part of the idiom, "bloggernacle" will never see much light of day, beyond certain provinces and cultures. And I reserve the right to find it disgusting, since apparently somebody found it "cute."

Have a great day! And thanks for agreeing with me, Jane Austen fan!

Sireofmany | 12:27 p.m. Oct. 8, 2008

To Jane Austin Fan:

Check your Websters. The "football" pronunciation of route is a correct pronunciation. Also, I didn't know that Harry Truman was as old as he was when he was president, since the date given for the origination of the word "normalcy" is 1857. (Wasn't he president a little later than this?)

Also, Shakespeare took great liberties with the evolutionary nature of English.

My point is that the language does and should evolve. You don't have to like every new word, but don't be such a snob about language evolution especially when you obviously don't know it as well as you think you do.

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