I played poker last night with a Chinaman, a Hindu, and an American. Guess who took all our money. Haha. Just kidding. No, but he really did win. But it's not because he as a moneygrubbing soulless American ... oh wait.

I cannot stand the word "blog." I shudder and cringe everytime I see that word. It's new the new word trend du jour ... and it makes me sick.

For those of you who have been spared of knowing of its experience, it is a shortened version of the word "weblog," which is the exact same thing as a journal.

Side note: Some "bloggers" will argue that journals are quite different than "blogs." That is true to a certain extend. But in the end, who is doing the writing? A "blog" is a journal that is written for an audience, and I make absolutely no distinction between the two.

Back when I was journaling back in 1998, blogs had a different name - "e/n." Yes, if you remember the e/n craze, you are an oldie. E/N meant everything/nothing, which represented the content base for a lot of journals back then.

But why? Why do I hate the word "blog" so much? Part of it is because the word itself means nothing. It doesn't associate itself with any word that's useful. Go up to someone new and say "I have a blog." When they look at you blankly, say, "I have a weblog."

They will still stare at you blankly.

Now tell them, "I have an internet journal." Watch them understand.

My second reason for hating the word is more superficial - I hate the way it sounds, it looks, and spells. I've never been particularly fond of the bl- or -og letter combinations; there aren't too many "good" words that are associated with it. I mean, "blog?!" It sounds like the crap that comes back up after you've had one too many shots of vodka. "I blogged all over the floor ... sorry."

I mean, look at all the sound to represent disgust: "Bleck." And -og just is too close to words I dont like: log (not the tree type either), mog, bog ... the -og just doens't seem very _strong_ and just has a bad connotation for me.

I'm down with creating new words, but the word for an internet journal should has some links with an existing word (and not weblog).