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My Edublog Diagnosis Bloquacia or Blogorrhea? / Day 7 What I’ve learned so far

May 7, 2008 at 12:42 am | In 31 Day Comment Challenge, Blogging, comment08 | 10 Comments
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I read a post by Greg, another one of the participants, regarding his reflections on Day 7. One of the three things he noted that he’d learned in the first week of the challenge was that “I still have problems with logorrhea, despite my awareness of the problem.”

This led me to wonder what the true definition of logorrhea (excessive or incoherent talkativeness) was and if I perhaps was suffering with what I thought would be blogorrhea (excessive blogging).

Bloggorrhea or Bloquacia

I went in search of the definition of bloggorrhea and discovered a couple.

blogorrhea
Definition: To write a blog entry just for the sake of posting an entry, not because you have done anything interesting today.
Definition: The overflow of rather useless contributions to the data.

I decided that blogorrhea didn’t fit, so I wondered if there was an equivalent to be loquacious in a blog and looked for the definition of bloquacious or suffering from bloquacia.

bloquacious

Define: (adj) using lots of wordsy words on your blog.

So I’ve decided that I tend to suffer more from bloquacia or excessive wordiness, rather than blogorrhea or blogging for the sake of blogging.

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