{"id":5280,"date":"2006-04-23T20:44:14","date_gmt":"2006-04-24T00:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2006\/04\/23\/that-blankety-blank-new-word-"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:59","slug":"that-blankety-blank-new-word-blang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2006\/04\/23\/that-blankety-blank-new-word-blang\/","title":{"rendered":"that blankety-blank new word “blang”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We campaigned long and hard against the <\/FONT>ugly-little word “blog<\/FONT><\/A>,” <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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invoking our duty to a joint language legacy<\/EM>.  Earlier this year, we <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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crusaded adamantly to make the <\/FONT>word “blawg” obsolete<\/FONT><\/A>.  Today, <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the f\/k\/a<\/EM> Gang proclaims its dissent over another spawn of “blog” – <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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the neologism <\/FONT>“blang<\/A>.”   <\/EM>See New York Times<\/EM>, “Coming to Terms <\/A><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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with a Wired Age<\/A>, Part 2,” by Lisa Belkin, April 23, 2006, in which <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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— perhaps trying to be a bit too hip and youthful — the Old Gray <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Lady becomes an <\/FONT>accessory to languicide<\/FONT>.<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Lisa Belkin’s column builds on <\/FONT>one<\/FONT><\/A> published on April 9th.  The <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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focus is an important and interesting topic: the ability of language to <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“make something official” — to “make a phenomenon fully exist.” As <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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we discuss below, Part I, <\/FONT>focused on words that describe the down-<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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side of being overly-wired into modern technology.  (Just yesterday,<\/FONT><\/DIV>
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Your Editor discussed the topic in a confessional post on over-posting<\/A>.)<\/FONT> <\/DIV>
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Un<\/FONT>fortunately, Belkins ended the April 9th post with a request for more <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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technology-focused neologisms.  The result was this paragraph in <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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today’s column:  <\/FONT><\/DIV>
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“You have names for many other new concepts, too. The <\/FONT><\/FONT>longest <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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list comes from Eve Fox (I can fit only part of it here), <\/FONT><\/FONT>a vice presi-<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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dent for electronic campaigns at M&R Strategic Services in Wash-<\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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ington, who suggests a whole new language. She calls it ‘Blang,’ <\/FONT><\/FONT><\/DIV>
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as in ‘Web language,’ and says it is spoken by ‘Web wraiths’ <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We campaigned long and hard against the ugly-little word “blog,” invoking our duty to a joint language legacy.  Earlier this year, we crusaded adamantly to make the word “blawg” obsolete.  Today, the f\/k\/a Gang proclaims its dissent over another spawn of “blog” – the neologism “blang.”   See New York Times, “Coming to Terms with a Wired Age, Part 2,” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1na","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12676,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5280\/revisions\/12676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}