Why not call it what it is? One’s thoughts, ideas and instruction should be posted on a web log.
Blog sounds so droll, so….I don’t know…maybe it’s that “aaag” sound at the end of the word. Sound is everything – more about that below. Log sounds much more elegant, like captain’s log. In fact, I think it deserves a longer spelling, like logue or something. Log has the sound of learning and education. But blog with its aaaaaag…that’s just no good.
Maybe it’s the association of that sound with other words like grog or nog (alcoholic and drunken) or flog (beaten and defeated) or bog* (as in bogged down). Why do we have to shorten everything and turn stuff into acronyms? Actually, in this case, it’s less an acronym and more an acrostic, but you know what I mean….
*Bog could go the other way – either in a “Use the force, Luke” sort of way or a shift to the dark side. Sound it out with a preppy English accent and your mind will take you to beautiful cranberry bogs with a summer’s morning mist rising and gently swirling and once dissipated revealing clear, clean water - a lovely scene worthy of an artist’s canvas. Go to the dark side and soon you are sinking in a dreadful baaaag on a dark, cold winter day and about to drown.
Did you know that sound is processed by the brain almost instantly? Eyesight, on the other hand, has a nearly 1/10 second delay – what you see is actually what you saw and so the question is, which is more reliable? Sight and vision are what the mind interprets after the fact, but sound? It’s right there and real.
So now that you’ve read this whole little piece, and have had a chance to think about it, don’t you agree? Wouldn’t it be so much nicer to call these things web logues?
