Sunday, February 4, 2007

bloggist

The suffix "-ist" added to a verb turns that word into a noun, generally describing someone who does that sort of work as a job like a scientist or an artist, or someone who holds certain beliefs like a Baptist or a Buddhist, or even someone who has certain abilities like a conversationalist or tendencies like an exhibitionist.

A person who writes a blog can therefore be, and often is, described as a "bloggist" although it takes time for newly minted words to become universally accepted. But "diarist" is an accepted term and since blogs are a sort of public diary, their rapid spread should make "bloggist" a respectable word quite soon.

Granted there are some people who are professional bloggists, but for most people blogging is an addition to other things they do. Some converse through their blogs and others may do it to indulge their exhibitionism.

Could blogging be a genre or a movement? Bloggism, anyone?

And would Boswell, diarist of Samuel Johnson, have been a bloggist?

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