‘Blog’ and ‘Tweet’ – Language of Origin..?

A word, if I may, on the words “Tweet” and “Blog”…

Spoken and Written Language are incredibly potent forms of communication that can be quite artistic when used by the right people. Poets, Politicians, Professors, Novelists, and Song Writers have all proven that – when used creatively and correctly – man can create beauty through words, speaking to our inner emotions, fears, and desires through simple sounds and lines on a page.

And then the internet dweebs started pulling words like ‘Tweet’ and ‘Blog’ out their asses.

Are there any less pleasant sounding words currently in common use today that aren’t a part of George Carlin’s ‘Seven Words’? I mean, I realize my mind does go to weird and unholy places sometimes, but am I the only one who immediately relates Blog to Blumpkin and Tweet to Skeet-Skeet-Skeet? I guess that latter comparison makes at least partial sense. After all, ‘Tweeting’ is essentially verbally ejaculating all over the internet’s face for a googly-eyed audience just waiting to gobble up the nonsense Twitter users are shooting out. I’m sure those Twitter users feel a sense of euphoria post-’Tweeting’ because they’ve just shared with the world some mindless emotional tid bit from their life, and web-surfers have become the whores wanting to be shared with again, and again, and again.

Blogs are a different animal. Now, I realize that – by all technicalities -’The Peanut Gallery’ is a blog., but what the hell ever happened to calling such things “personal websites” or hell even “e-journals”? What oh-so-genius moron decided that ‘blog’ was shorthand for ‘personal site’? More importantly, why did ‘writing an article for my blog’ become ‘BLOGGING’??? “Blogging -  the smashing together of ‘Blumpkin’ and ‘Flogging’…that about sums it up.” Thus, in short, pouring your heart out on your e-journal is the physical equivalent to being flogged whilst receiving a blumpkin.

I’m sure my quasi-English Major sensibilities are being tweaked more than the average human being on this, but c’mon people!