After several attempts at getting things rolling and having the computer gods tell me again and again that there was a BLOG problem, I am now up and running, er, BLOGGING.
Now that I am a BLOGGER I felt the first thing I needed to do was learn what a BLOG is so I looked up BLOG in the online dictionary. Did any of you new BLOGGERS realize that BLOG is short for Weblog? After reading that this suddenly makes a whole lot of sense. Keeping a log on the web. Simple. I like it.
What I have a difficult time believing is that this is the ONLY definition for BLOG. What a great word. Say it over and over. BLOG..... BLOG.....BLOG. It never gets old. It could mean anything. Have you ever read the poem Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll?
JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.
"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
I first read this poem in my 9th grade Latin I class. My teacher had the class go through this poem and determine which nonsense words were nouns, verbs and adjectives. It called upon students' Syntantic system of language to determine what was what. From there we looked at a piece of writing in Latin and determined nouns verbs and adjectives and found that we were 90% correct.
But back to BLOG. This word could be inserted anywhere in the poem:
Twas BLOGGY, and the slithy toves or
Twas brillig, and the BLOGGY toves or
Twas brillig, and the slithy BLOGS (my personal favorite)
So this word we never used before that obviously has potential, is not even a word, it's an abbreviation for Weblog. Boggles the mind. Or if you are typing very fast and clip the "L" that is right next to the "O", it may BLOGGLES the mind.
Thanks for reading and keep on BLOGGING
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We had to memorize it in 6th grade. My teacher, aptly if not euphoniously named Mr. Roach, was a stickler for enunciation, so I still tend to spit when reciting this one. Love it!
ReplyDeleteBTW, I had it that BLOG is short for BINARY LOG, which matches the contraction, but makes less sense. If this were the 18th century, your version would be written 'blog, rather like 'SBLOOD, whereas mine would be b'log. And my point? WTFC? Isn't going on and on with meaningless, self-indulgent drivel what b'logging is all about? It's wonderful! Now, instead of driing into desperate somnambulance as, zombified, they seek escape, a few people at a party or, cornered by the water cooler, I can mummify the brains of millions of unsuspecting victims who read my endless ramblings.
You're lucky. My 9th grade teacher liked to give occasional classes entirely in Latin, and we were supposed to know what was going on!
'Twas bloggy and the bloggy blogs
did blogyr and bloggle in the blog.
All blogsy were the blogogroves
And the blog blogths out blog.
I guess you could insert it anywhere, but it seems to lose something...
Hey Matt!
ReplyDeleteLiving in a place where it rains every day and where the sun comes out once every 7 years sounds...well...it sounds depressing. Then, I think about how I would feel knowing that next year the sun will come out and I anticipate it. I get excited about it and for at least that one day, my life would be different and I would make the most of it because there's no guarantee that i'll be around to see it again 7 years from now. Thanks for introducing that book. Barnes and Noble here i come!