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Posted May 25, 2005 1:19 AM.

A French commission doesn't approve of the word 'blog' and wants to replace it with the more gallic 'bloc-notes' or 'bloc' for short... I don't like the word 'blog' either. I liked weblog much more. I think Meg Hourihan experiences daily shame about the whole thing too. Oh those neologists, when will they learn?!

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I blame Peter Merholz. Dammit! I told him it was a silly word!

→ Posted by: Graham at May 25, 2005 2:47 AM

The French for blog is 'bleurg'. Surely everyone knows that?

→ Posted by: Vaughan at May 25, 2005 9:49 AM

The commission has no power and the word will not take, simply because only people who don't have internet access will use it.

It's not all bad trying to come up with French equivalents for mostly English new terminology. We have a Franch word for software (logiciel) which is completely made up and which has entirely prevailed ever since home computing began. And I like it.

But here I'm afraid this new bloc thing is only going to make it harder to explain to grampa what a blog actually is.

I'm French by the way.

PS: HTML tags are not for style.

→ Posted by: ghola at May 27, 2005 6:38 AM

I always liked the word myself.

→ Posted by: Martin Wisse at May 27, 2005 5:44 PM

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