{"id":364,"date":"2008-11-21T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T14:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/wordp\/?p=364"},"modified":"2008-11-21T14:01:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T14:01:42","slug":"whos-blogline-is-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s blogline is it anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The origin or etymology of words is often fascinating. So much of our spoken and written communications contain phrases with accepted meanings but long forgotten origins. A favourite example of mine is codswallop.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u2013noun British Slang.<br \/>\nnonsense; rubbish.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The origin of this phrase is obscure but it may have it&#8217;s root in the invention of a 19th century bottle maker called Hiram Codd. The story goes that Codd invented a bottle with a neck that was suitable for storing fizzy beverages. Brewers weren&#8217;t so impressed and suggested it was only good for the worst quality beer, for which the slang term is <em>&#8220;wallop&#8221;<\/em>.<br \/>\nRecently I got an email about the <a href=\"\">Chapeau Blog Awards<\/a> asking for nominations for different blogs in different categories. They included a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapeaublogawards.com\/blog\/blogohpedia\/\">BlogOhPedia<\/a> containing a small collection of new phrases relating to blogging.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a few suggestions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Blogarrhea<\/b> &#8211; a painful condition where someone must blog each and every thought<\/li>\n<li><b>Blogpocracy<\/b> &#8211; posting contradictory opinions with no justification for the change of mind<\/li>\n<li><b>Blogswallop<\/b> &#8211; the kind of totally indulgent rubbish that could only exist on a blog<\/li>\n<li><b>Blarcasm<\/b> &#8211; an ironic taunt posted to a blog<\/li>\n<li><b>Blogtroll<\/b> &#8211; someone who actively attempts to create conflict with blog owners and other posters through inflammatory comments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin or etymology of words is often fascinating. So much of our spoken and written communications contain phrases with accepted meanings but long forgotten origins. A favourite example of mine is codswallop. \u2013noun British Slang. nonsense; rubbish. The origin of this phrase is obscure but it may have it&#8217;s root in the invention of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1705],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gaisan.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}