blogress

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Mar 10 19:00:08 UTC 2012


On Mar 10, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:

> On 3/10/2012 10:09 AM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
>
>> In passing, "blogress" has an added appeal for me -- a hint of anti-progress.
>
> I'm going to have to pay closer attention--I thought the term way
> "blogess" not "blogress".

A blogess for me would be (if anything) a female blog rather than a female blogger.

LH
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> I have no idea what that means.
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