I couldn’t care less about “I could care less”, the topic of the latest Language column in the International Herald Tribune. This, however, drives me to irrational and uncontrollable rage every time:

“I wrote a blog yesterday about common vocabulary mistakes”

Really? A whole blog?? On just one topic??? In just one day????  

As history is full of people putting these things permanently to rest by writing about them on obscure TEFL blogs, here goes on sorting this thing out once and for all:

Blog is short for “web log”. Despite the obvious jokes about turds and blogs, here “log” means a book that is similar to a diary. Just like a log is a whole book rather than an entry, a blog is like a whole website. A blog is NOT, some people might be surprised to hear, made up of lots of blogs. There are three perfectly serviceable and unambiguous words for a single entry on a blog, one of which is that- “entry”. Simple enough for everyone, I would have thought. If anyone doesn’t like that, try “piece” or “post”. I will even let “article” pass with no more than a sneer. If someone comments on the blogger’s post, that is, funnily enough, a comment- NOT a post.

Right, that’s that settled. Now back to claiming I am the good descriptivist that I was taught to be on my CELTA…