It amazes me, given the shortage of readers on this site, how much comment spam I get. I like spam, though. It’s interesting. I may be the only person to think so. It’s because of my deep admiration for the English language. You have to love a language that will borrow a word from anyone anywhere and use it for its own purposes. Thus did Spam (the food) become spam (the unwanted e-mail or blog comment).<\/p>\n
Now the spam itself is a source for fascinating words, everything from unpronounceable chemical compounds, to names of African tribes, to Dutch units of measurement. Every spam is like a treasure trove. I am half tempted to let it through, just so I can have such words on my blog.<\/p>\n
Half tempted is not wholly tempted, of course, so I’ll continue to can the spam (ha-ha), but I will also continue to look for ways to bring interesting words to this blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It amazes me, given the shortage of readers on this site, how much comment spam I get. I like spam, though. It’s interesting. I may be the only person to think so. It’s because of my deep admiration for the … Continue reading