Blogtionary
Friday, May 13, 2005
Since Michael Hanscom thinks I’m making it up, here’s a screengrab of OS X’s dictionary definition of “blog”. In fairness, the quote about unhealthy interests in computers is given as a usage example, but still.
Since Michael Hanscom thinks I’m making it up, here’s a screengrab of OS X’s dictionary definition of “blog”. In fairness, the quote about unhealthy interests in computers is given as a usage example, but still.
Michael Hanscom says:
(laughs) Now, now—I thought you _might_ have been making it up! A slight difference, but a difference nothenless.
As it turns out, I found out what was going on—simply that the nice pop-up definitions are somewhat truncated. Once I looked it up in the actual Dictionary app, I found it.
Triksy, these Apple engineers are…
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Andrew says:
Apparently, the origin of the term “Blogger” came from shortening (according to the dictionary). Someone has been eating too much of it, I guess…