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Top Irritating Words Spawned by Internet

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stop-saying-that dept.

prostoalex writes "If you're launching a new blog into the blogosphere, does the common netiquette allow you to have a separate wiki to go with a blog? If the previous sentence irritated you, you're not alone. Folksonomy, blogosphere, blog, netiquette and blook are among the most hated Internet words, Lulu Blooker Prize research found."

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  1. Re:The list by arun_s · · Score: 5, Informative

    Oblig. maddox link.

    --
    I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
  2. Netiquette by arth1 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Correction: "Netiquette" is a much older term than what many seem to think, and stands for network etiquette, not Internet etiquette.
    Netiquette applies just as much to Fidonet, Bitnet, Usenet[1] and other networks.

    [1]: Usenet isn't all inside Internet. It becomes more and more so with time, but there's still nodes that use other forms of propagation, whether it's BBS gateways, Fidonet or UUCP.

    1. Re:Netiquette by andi75 · · Score: 4, Informative

      Etiquette on usenet traditionally broke down only in September, until the new students learned some manners. In 1993 came AOL, and with it the Eternal September.

      Now get off my lawn, kids.

  3. Re:Wired's Memes by Your.Master · · Score: 4, Informative
    From dictionary.com:

    promulgate /prmlget, promlget/
    -verb (used with object), -gated, -gating.
    1. to make known by open declaration; publish; proclaim formally or put into operation (a law, decree of a court, etc.).
    2. to set forth or teach publicly (a creed, doctrine, etc.).


    I think promulgate works fine. Wird is making them known by open declaration, it's publishing it, and in a sense it's teaching an "etc." publicly. It might be slightly awkward in that sentence, but no more so than propagate would be.

    Myself, I would have said "spread". There's really nothing wrong with short, simple, ancient, Anglo-Saxon words.