Comments on: How to say “Blog”

By: Hob

Hob — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 01:36:46 +0000

To make things more confusing, some lawyers online have started using “blawg” (spelled thus) to mean “a weblog about legal matters.” (What would you call a weblog about logging?) The other cute coinage I can’t stand is “bleg”: to beg for something (donations, prose, etc.) for/via your blog. Will my generation be remembered for wasting all our time on this shit?

By: jinja

jinja — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:14:24 +0000

'Blog' has infiltrated the non-english speaking world. Even those of the ex-colonials who weren't english speaking! And since many cultures don't have localized technical terms, most people say it in Cambodia like 'bloc'. Or alternately, 'web-side'. There's been some discussion about using Sanskrit or Pali components to create new terms, but the intersection of politics and language can be a tricky one. More fun at http://www.khmeros.info http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/globalvoices/-/world/east-asia/cambodia/ BTW @ local speeds, Pete Radio takes about 1 hour to download, sometimes an hour and a half. How I miss high bandwidth...

By: Garen

Garen — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 20:46:50 +0000

Being a theremin “player” (ie. just about) and with a couple of theremin DVDs with Bob Moog’s name spoken on them, I’d write the pronunciation of his name as ‘Moge’, hard ‘g’, rhymes with vogue. Or Moag, perhaps, with ‘oa’ as in ‘boat’. Hm.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:27:14 +0000

I remember that – it is quite genius in a mad Californian scientist kinda way. It’s probably what set me off on this whole thing, I think.

By: brendadada

brendadada — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:54:31 +0000

How to:

build a blawg engine in 15 minutes with Ruby on Rails.

Very funny, and quite a delight. Blawg. Indeed.

By: dglp

dglp — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:59:20 +0000

Oops. Typo’s.
1. Hakon (ish)
2. Mogue as similar to Morgue?
3. (e.g. Robert Mewg?)

By: dglp

dglp — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 23:45:31 +0000

Looks like you were ahead of the curve again. This from the Beeb news site, w. ref to Robert Mogwe:

“Moog was not alone in having a name people couldn’t pronounce properly. People called H�kon, Jiye, Michi, Elissa, Asa, Nara and Laszlo have each written on the web about going through life with people not knowing how to say their names. Some have resorted to publishing MP3 files of the correct pronunciation.”

link

The article complicates matters with this line:
For Moog should not have rhymed with “fugue”. It’s pronounced “Mogue”.

I pronounce one of the quoted words as “fewg” (e.g. Rbert Fewg?) or perhaps ‘fug’ (Robt. Mug?), and the other as Mogway, as in Robt. Moggy and Robert Mogwabe. Certainly none of these is close to “Moag” – the way I’ve always pronounced the name.

The lack of consistency here makes me think we’re needing an audio thesaurus right away. As a companion to UrbanDictionary.com.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:22:20 +0000

Thanks for that, dglp. I feel a mashup coming on…

By: dglp

dglp — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:13:37 +0000

can how do you say? Guaranteed to make you cringe.

By: Kats

Kats — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:06:56 +0000

Maybe you could get the Beeb to include “blog” in their next regional accents survey – more interesting than asking people for another word for female parent. weblog sounds like frog croak to me.

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:24:18 +0000

James: The word should sound like the satisfying clunk of a new car door closing. Blaag, along with blawg, blarg and even, should it actually occur, blorrgh are more the sound an old car door makes on route to the clunk. They need oiling.

Th Southern variety is just the most entertaining, but they all have issues.

By: Jez

Jez — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 14:02:47 +0000

“graphic novel” is properly pronounced “long comic”, or “comic” for short. “blog” is properly pronounced “weblog” or “website”.

Hmmph.

By: brendadada

brendadada — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:55:58 +0000

hahaha !

By: James Kew

James Kew — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 09:18:25 +0000

Careful: not all American accents are Southern drawls, just as not all British accents are Cockney sparras.

Here in California it’s probably most often “blaag”, which is still a little too sheepy for me.