more blends

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
>
> In the tradition of "vook", we also evidently
> have the "vodcast", which I suppose is on some
> level a second-order blend:

It's also in the tradition of "vlog" (video blog), which Larry and others
discussed here in Jan. '05:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0501B&L=ADS-L&P=R3755

And then there's "diavlog" as used on Bloggingheads.tv, which I posted about in
Mar. '06:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0603A&L=ADS-L&P=R545

On Language Log I recently noted the status of "diavlog" as a third-order blend:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1684


--Ben Zimmer

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