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Nice to see it’s not just our local news!
New York Review of Books
‘The premier literary-intellectual magazine in English language.’
A blog, for those who don’t know, is a journal or log that appears on a Web site. It is written on line, read on line, and updated on line. It’s there for anyone with an Internet connection to see and (in many cases) comment on. The entries, or posts, are organized in reverse chronological order, like a pile of unread mail, with the newest posts on top and the older stuff on the bottom.
The word “blog” is a portmanteau term for Web log or Weblog.
Many bloggers really don’t write much at all. They are more like impresarios, curators, or editors, picking and choosing things they find on line, occasionally slapping on a funny headline or adding a snarky (read: snotty and catty) comment. Some days, the only original writing you see on a blog is the equivalent of “Read this…. Take a look…. But, seriously, this is lame…. Can you believe this?”
Bloggers also sprinkle their blogs with expressions like WTF (translation: “What the fuck?”), lol (laugh out loud), and meh (a verbal shrug). They willfully misspell—like “teh” for “the.” They call the Internet “the internets,” cutely following George W. Bush’s slip.
I for one can say I know not one blogger who WILLFULLY misspells the as teh. Perhaps, we push publish before noticing? Or is there a movement I have not yet been privy to be a part of yet, and if so WTF? I think every single time I type the word the it ends up as teh first…but willfully? Er, silly internets.
I love Gawker’s rewiew of the article.
Of course, considering that her audience is the readership of the damn NYRB, need Boxer actually explain (and nearly apologize for) the vitriol, bile, and unhinged cruelty of blog criticism? This is the publication in which Norman Mailer once compared reading a Tom Wolfe book to fucking a fatty. (”Once she gets on top, it’s over. Fall in love, or be asphyxiated.”) Gore Vidal has been making the letters section of Review of Books his own de facto blog for 40 years!
(NB: The list of “books mentioned” will make you cry.)
3 Comments
I’ve been known to use “Teh” before, as spelled out here; it’s most commonly seen paired with other words, usually adjectives, to create a two-word, misspelled noun, as in “Wow, the Bills leaving Buffalo would sure be Teh Suck”.
Comment by Jaquandor February 10, 2008 @ 6:19 pmYou don’t know anyone who uses “teh?” It is teh awesome to use “teh!”
I like how they had to define “snarky.”
Comment by Eden February 10, 2008 @ 8:04 pmMaybe I always assumed they WERE typos, like mine! Now I know!!!
Comment by allthingsjennifer February 10, 2008 @ 8:08 pm