Every walk of life and field of endeavor generates its own insiders' lingo. Those of us in the MSM � that's the superannuated, archaic mainstream media � have our own jargon, of which the first sentence of an article is the lede, the early edition is the bulldog and the guys working into the wee hours make up the lobster shift.
Some of our special vocabulary is being stolen from us by the denizens of the world of Web logs. Above the fold � the top half of a standard-size newspaper page, where the major stories begin � now, in "blargon," is what we see on a blog's screen before we begin to scroll down.
There's a whole new world out there with a whole new vocabulary that we have to at least be aware of to communicate in the 21st century.
Oh, in case you hadn't noticed, I've delicioused a lot lately.
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