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January 14, 2008
The origin of 'nerd' — Episode 2: Bob of RPI strikes back
His comment on yesterday morning's Episode 1 arrived last evening at 9:20 p.m. and appears above.
Me, I tend to agree with Bob's contention that "Seuss's use is nonsensical and not related to our definition of a 'nerd.'"
Okay, Economist, the ball's in your court (after I send them this post).
And while we're on the subject of Seuss's neoligisms, the origin of the word "blog" in another of his works — blogs meaning "the world's sweetest frogs" — would appear likewise to be coinage of a nonsense word unrelated to our concept of what a blog is.
January 14, 2008 at 02:01 PM | Permalink
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I always understood blog to be a shortening of weblog, like a captain's log. Seems like a no brainer.
Posted by: tamra | Jan 15, 2008 12:23:51 AM
OED would be the WORD on this.
Posted by: Mb | Jan 14, 2008 7:14:25 PM
