Different

Posted on May 15, 2003 @ 16:11 in Research

Dutch and American-English weblogs are different, and it's not just the language. Or maybe it's exactly because of the language, or maybe Dutch webloggers have come to a subtly different consensus about what weblogging is and what it should look like. Or maybe I'm not reading the same type of weblogs in Amerenglish as in Dutch. I will have to qualify this difference and I'll need to do some more research.

Speaking of classification: are weblogs a particular type of home page?

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  1. Hya, exactly or precisely ?
    Nice observation.
    Whatever the adverb: the English language 'frees' thought into easy writing.

    Posted by jo cheski on June 04, 2003 @ 09:39

  2. Now you made me crack open 3 different dictionaries! The insecurity of the non-native speaker...

    It's probably better to say "precisely because of the language," or at least more like what you'd say in conversation, but the according to Webster's, both would be possible here.

    I like the idea of language freeing thought, but I'm not sure it's always easy writing. For me at least.

    Posted by Frank on June 05, 2003 @ 09:22

  3. Hello again,

    I loved your 'cracked open' of the dictionaries, but would prefer to 'crack open' a bottle or two ;-)
    BTW, forget dictionaries: just read and copy. Plagiarizing is "in" these days.

    Posted by jo on July 16, 2003 @ 08:59

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