"clack" [Was: blogging for pay]

[Joel S. Berson]

I like "clack"-- presumably from (OED)

  {dag}9. A loquacious person, a chatterbox. Obs.
1640 FULLER Joseph's Coat (1867) 8 They are but clacks and tell-tales
for their pains. 1680 OTWAY Caius Marius II. iii. (1735) 40 That
well-spoken fool, That popular clack.

(If so, the OED needs some updating!  Yes, I know -- next century ...
er, decade.)

No relationship to "flack" (n.2), which is perhaps a little more on
target for the sense of "promotion"?

Joel

At 10/7/2009 05:57 PM, Dennis Baron wrote:
>There's a new post on the Web of Language:
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>Blogging for pay
>
>The Federal Trade Commission has issued new rules requiring bloggers
>to disclose any compensation they may receive for product placements,
>endorsements, and testimonials.
>
>According to the FTC rules, after December 1, "the post of a blogger
>who receives cash or in-kind payment to review a product is considered
>an endorsement. Thus, bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose
>the material connections they share with the seller of the product or
>service."
>
>Read the rest of this post, with its shocking revelations, on the Web
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