blogging and blugging

[Benjamin Zimmer]

>From Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize lecture:

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http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2007/lessing-lecture_en.html
And just as we never once stopped to ask, How are we, our minds, going
to change with the new internet, which has seduced a whole generation
into its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess
that once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a
whole day has passed in blogging and blugging etc.
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Lessing's "blug(ging)" putdown may gain some currency with the help of
this New York Times article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/business/media/24lessing.html
"Blog, Blug. To the Writer Doris Lessing, It's Whatever."



--Ben Zimmer

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