Off-topic
Will you indulge me a mini off-topic rant?
An Open Letter To All Bloggers Throughout The World
by Nick Cho
Dear fellow blogger:
The english language is, as we all know, an ever-changing thing. Words get added every year with much fanfare, usually acknowledged by broadcast, print, or internet news as a semi-silly human-interest-type story tagged onto the end of a segment.
"This year, the Oxford English Dictionary added the word 'wiki,' which means the sound that a DJ makes when scratching." or whatever.
Add words; that's fine. It happens. Sometimes it's annoyingly cutesy, like when they added the Homer-Simpsonism, "Doh!"
But sometimes, things take a weird turn.
Did you know that the english language USED to have five 1st-person-singular personal pronouns?
There's the ever-present "I" (that's as in 'eye,' not a lower case L or the number one, to the serif-impaired readers in the audience).
Of course, there's the oft misused "me."
And then the others: my, mine, myself. (Grammar-Nazis will note that 'my' is, in fact, a personal adjective and not a pronoun. To you, I say, "Beat it, nerd.")
There's a new 1st-person-singular-personal-pronoun on the block.
"This blogger."
Sometimes, it's "This blog." Sometimes, it's the name of the blog.
God created a certain number of personal pronouns. It's an abomination against The Creator and all mankind to go against it. It's unnatural. What's next, are you going to have sex with animals?
I'm not even going to rant any more about this. It's annoying, and it has to stop.
Please.
Sincerely, your friend, cordially,
Nick
4 Comments:
this girl thinks you need to get over it. love, this blogger
Methinks (first person singular pronoun-verb contraction) that “wiki” should be noted by the English language Overlords as meaning “to hurry; to move quickly”. “Wiki” in Hawaiian means, incidentally, “to hurry; to move quickly”. According to the latest studies, it appears that the Hawaiian usage may actually predate the more recent one by the “musical” form in which the “c” is silent… In fact, if you fly to Hawaii (as opposed to sailing here, I suppose) you’ll have the opportunity to catch the “wiki wiki shuttle” at the airport. Anyway, I’m not sure what’s upsetting Mr. Cho, as I haven’t read the whole post yet. I just needed to REPRESENT… Do people discuss coffee issues on this site?
By the by, Mr. Cho, thanks for a great class at the SCAA thingy. Very insightful. Maybe you should’ve labeled it as the The Three “C’s”: Quality, Convenience, Community. If you ever have another such, I’ll make sure to wiki on over to it. Mahalo puhlenty!
Nice. I stole this, actually. If that displeases you then, well... what's done is done. It's easier to get forgiveness than permission, as my brother always says.
you're only giving power to the bloggers by saying they've invented something novel. they live for that crap--even if it is completely useless. it is better to ignore them and act like you don't understand:
"This blogger"
"Which blogger? Are you missing a link or something?"
"I said 'this blogger.'"
"I know: which one?"
"This one."
"You mean that one?"
"No this one."
"You mean you?"
"Yes this one."
"So...you?"
"Yes. Me."
"Right. you."
[It could play out in a variety of ways, but declaring a frontal assult will ultimately inspire a fortification of the collective blogger ego (I think they keep it somewhere in a padded room in silicone valley) If that were to happen, you might as well wait until the next OED. Neverthess, an astute observation: you should put that on your blog.]
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