Before you read this bullshit I like this! and I’ve found an article about an old exhibition I was selected for (Second North Devon Open Art Show).

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Idiom or Optimization?

The fashion for blogging is a bizarre idiom. The use of the blog as a marketing tool is obvious; sites like http://www.webpronews.com/ exploit its undoubted power. The language of the blog (like texting) defines the style of expression of a specific person or group. Sometimes our language has a fixed distinctive expression whose meaning cannot be deduced from the combined meanings of its actual words – this jargon based spaghetti can in itself be termed as an art form. This characteristic style of an artist or artistic group becomes Dada, surrealist poetry or ‘key search words’. A turn of phrase or argot is an art form. This special language used by this particular group of people attempts to invent a way of using a language – that becomes natural to its native speakers or authors. Clarity of meaning gets lost in jargonized rambling; actually defining a meaning becomes woolly – this paragraph attempts to define idiom in an optimized way.

Another thought about language and the Internet – T H E L A N G U A G E OF M E . The sharing of personal information, feelings, personal details (could be fact or fiction – the majority of online persona are fake) is a strange concept. Do we like to talk about ourselves – do we think we are special? Is our online persona more interesting? Are our ‘friends’ as insecure and as dull as us? What does your boss think? (Found this by chance – there seems no point in repeating it myself.)

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