Everyone is talking about headlines, it seems.
David Marsh, The Guardian's style guide editor, took on cliches today, in his Mind your language column, while yesterday Sally Baker, feedback editor at The Times, discussed the tricksiness of summing up a story accurately in a headline, in her Feedback column.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, we are still reeling from the stray "bogging" that made it into the blogging feature in this week's issue. Eek.
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Defintion by The Online Dictionary:
ReplyDeleteBog
a. An area having a wet, spongy, acidic substrate composed chiefly of sphagnum moss and peat in which characteristic shrubs and herbs and sometimes trees usually grow.
b. Any of certain other wetland areas, such as a fen, having a peat substrate. Also called peat bog.
2. An area of soft, naturally waterlogged ground.
v. bogged, bog·ging, bogs
v.tr.
To cause to sink in or as if in a bog: We worried that the heavy rain across the prairie would soon bog our car. Don't bog me down in this mass of detail.
v.intr.
To be hindered and slowed.
Or as The Urban Dictionary puts it:
Bogging
To be tired to a point in which you can't find a better word other than bogging.
To be Extremely lazy due to a previous encounter with a strenuous activity.
"Wow that 4 mile run was tiring," said Jim.
"Yeah I'm totally bogging," replied John
Similar to minging.
You are bogging.
That shirt is bogging.
Something that is failing.
To strugle with a task.
For something to wreck or on the verge of wrecking.
"Man this team is bogging!"
All valid I suppose. I often 'strugle' with tasks, damn tasks bogging me down.