A thought
Lawyers have “blawgs”. Given the recent upsurge in the number of mathematicians blogging should we have a new term for us? I suggest “blath”, and the term for our activity would be “blathering”.
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how about ‘blatherscape’, sounds better to me
Shouldn’t they be spelled “blns” (but still pronounced “blogs”, or maybe “natural blogs”)?
Someone on Wikipedia thought that it was worth writing an article about blaths.
And just when I was being assured the idea had died on the vine. Thanks, mysterious stranger.
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I have a blog about math in games. Does that make it a blath or a blame?
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