Atomic Playboy» etymology http://atomicplayboy.net All hail the mushroom cloud Tue, 08 May 2012 13:19:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 A Minor Confession http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2005/08/07/a-minor-confession/ http://atomicplayboy.net/blog/2005/08/07/a-minor-confession/#comments Sun, 07 Aug 2005 00:22:41 +0000 Johan Svensson http://atomicplayboy.net/?p=384 I don’t like the verb “blog.” Actually, I kind of hate it. I despise sentences like “I blogged about this or that.”

But then I thought to myself, “Self, what is it you’re doing here if it’s not blogging?”

Well, I feel like I’m going the same thing I’ve done since 1995 or so, only some people now call it blogging. I still call it writing. This is a blog, but I write on it.

I like words. One might even say I’m a big fan of them, both the words themselves and their visual representation. Typography is how I got interested in etymology. Sadly, blog turned into a hyped-up overused word that started to replace the already perfectly good word write.

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