I'm sure most of you have heard/read about Anna "Devil-wears-Prada" Wintour's demand that "blog" be replaced with a more attractive word. I agree with the Vogue editrix -not how we each perceive "fashion" obviously- but, how gaudy the word "blog" sounds.
Here, in Europe, blog sounds less tacky because the "o" is pronounced like oreo, the cookies.(See why I'm not a fashion queen? My mind immediately went to food.) Whereas, on the other side of the Atlantic the "o" is pronounced ah, as in blah. Ms.Wintour makes a valid argument, blog (pronounced the American way) sounds like it's ready to hurl its stomach contents.
Therefore, since blog=web+log and since vlogs=video+log are the NEW blogs I propose: vlogues. By vloguers. In the vloguesphere. Elegant enough?
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Debriefing
- Flubberwinkle
- Athens, Greece
- Half of the day they call me "Athena" where I get paid to dabble with computers. The other half of the day I'm called "Mom", but I also have an online secret identity. I am bilingual, so what might look like Greek to you, probably is. I blog because it's cheaper than therapy and I like to make people laugh.
