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What is a blog, anyway?

11/21/2016

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 I've been making etymology posts for twenty days and I still have no clue what a blog meant, so I decided to research it. Blog was actually a shortening of weblog, or web (meaning "internet") and log meaning "journal". I don't want to go into web too much, because I'm saving that for a later post, but take my word for it when I say it traces back to a PIE word for "fabric". Meanwhile, the word log first springs to mind a gnarled broken-off piece of a tree. The log in weblog is different, but actually does come from the exact same word. Descending from Norse lag, meaning "fallen tree", English adopted log, which means "part of a fallen tree", not much of an etymological transition. Then a curious transition occurred. Sailors created log-books to make records of speed, which was measured at the time by a piece of wood (a part of a log) at the end of a string. Log-books then got shortened to logs, which was a term adopted into a portmanteau with web to make weblogs. The we- prefix got dropped accidentally, and a b got added to log to make blog. Curious story really. Blog-worthy.
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Ken bone
11/28/2016 07:39:10 am

I think it was made from web and log not web and blog....

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Adam
11/28/2016 11:58:16 am

Thanks, the typo has been fixed!

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12/12/2020 07:37:29 am

1: do you have a FB page i can join?
2: in Your languages tree why are some in red and some in green?

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12/12/2020 07:47:25 am

Not sure if you know this: WW2 japanese wanting to break codes.... two Welsh speakers, one in london, one in Australia, used to send highly confidential information about troup movements etc to each other....just chatting in Welsh..... the Japanese were never able to ‘break the xode’!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿😱😇🤣😂

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12/15/2020 08:11:00 pm

i trace OK to Okeh meaning ‘it is so’ American Indian
i trace quack to those who sold a salve made of mercury
by shouting, a common method of selling, which reminds one of duck quacking

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