Don't suppose you've seen the latest article from BBC News about language on the web, have you? Web-lish to replace English runs the title, and the author, Ben Camm-Jones writes:
'New words coined to describe things we encounter on the internet can be pretty awful, but 'folksonomy' has been voted the worst of the lot.' Well fancy that.
The article features the self-styled web policeman Bob Young, who is Chief Executive of Lulu, the 'Blooker Prize' organisers, (hang on, wasn't Lulu a singer from Scotland?). Young declares that too many awkward new words are being coined to describe Internet activity, and that 'web-lish is the new English'. He also rules that 'Folksonomy' is a word that makes you want to 'howl in the night'. Well, why confine yourself to yelling in the dark, Mr Young, when you can come up with words like 'Web-lish'?
I despair.... really I do.
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