Blog rearguard action
Would it make sense for
Then why the hell do people keep writing, "I just wrote a blog about such-and-such"? A whole friggin' blog? Wow.
The diarist writes entries, the newspaper reporter writes articles, the TV reporter does a show or a story, and the blogger writes entries, articles, or posts. Unless you're my wife, in which case you actually do have three different blogs. But even in her case, she doesn't write a complete blog "last night".
Sheesh. It's like teaching your parents to use slang and not sound like complete rubes. Shall I give up?
- a diarist to say, "I just wrote a diary about my experience last night"?
- a newspaper reporter to say, "I just wrote a newspaper about the incident"?
- a TV reporter to say, "I did a series about that last night"?
Then why the hell do people keep writing, "I just wrote a blog about such-and-such"? A whole friggin' blog? Wow.
The diarist writes entries, the newspaper reporter writes articles, the TV reporter does a show or a story, and the blogger writes entries, articles, or posts. Unless you're my wife, in which case you actually do have three different blogs. But even in her case, she doesn't write a complete blog "last night".
Sheesh. It's like teaching your parents to use slang and not sound like complete rubes. Shall I give up?
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