Comments on: It's a blog post, not a freakin' blog

By: Riley

Riley — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:44:28 +0000

Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking your feeds too now, thanks.

I’m Out! :)

By: Ben Chapman

Ben Chapman — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:48:49 +0000

I was flicking through the marking scheme of the Junior Cert English course last year. And it said ‘Write a blog on a topic of your choice.’ Oh boy was I tempted to write to the department that the person who composed that ENGLISH exam obviously had no grasp of English or modern terminology and they should stop f****** writing stuff they don’t have a clue about. Urgh

- End Rant -

By: Prof. Facebook

Prof. Facebook — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 23:02:26 +0000

[...] recent blog post (or as Sabrina Dent would say, a blog) by Kristen Osenga (guest blogger at the legal group blog Concurring Opinions) contains quite a few [...]

By: Sean O' Grady

Sean O' Grady — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:47:54 +0000

@Michael Flanagan you’re right up there maverick-wise with the likes of John McCain

By: martinb

martinb — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 19:42:25 +0000

I remember Sorley Maclean telling of a time when people said that (Scots) Gaelic would be a relevant modern language when it had a word for Spaghetti. To which he replied that he was looking forward to hearing the English word for it.

In a similar (yet strangely opposite) vein: Irish (and Gaelic) should worry about a native idiom for Internet when they improve upon Gaelicised-Anglified Greek for Television.

An fear seo: telebhisean agus rèidio

By: Rory

Rory — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:19:42 +0000

Re pet language hates, why in god’s name do we make up garbage names in Irish for something that is a new invention?

Idirghréasán

Apparently this is the new Irish word for the internet ?????

Why? Is internet not good enough?

Though there is now a great opportunity to have a competition to name the word that will be blog in Irish. A few suggestions:

Blogaéiocht
Bléagheadgoaéigí
An Blóg
spideoriacht

Any others?

By: Deborah

Deborah — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:25:57 +0000

LOL, love it! :) “Blog site” gets to me too!

By: Primal Sneeze

Primal Sneeze — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:19:16 +0000

Oh, I have another one: “Do you have the Internet*?”, meaning do you have a broadband service.

* With a small I of course. We master pedants will only use “internet”, with a lower case I, to denote any set of two or more connected networks.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:43:55 +0000

I say “the Facebook” on purpose… lol I find it rather funny.

By: martinb

martinb — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:54:07 +0000

Your mother wouldn’t *be* the old; she would *have* the old (on her) an bhfuil?

Now the thing that *really* bugs me is “logging onto” a site. BBC are particularly bad with that usage. No, unless you’re actually providing username/password, you’re merely visiting.