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Blawg Review is an interesting blog carnival of some of the best law blog posts selected by a different host each week, often presented with a creative theme. This week's Blawg Review #42 is an homage to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by the late great neologist Douglas Adams. The theme is inspired by the issue number 42, which is the answer to life, the universe and everything!

Wordlab readers might also be familiar with the lesser-known work of Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, The Meaning of Liff.

One of the posts selected for this week's Blawg Review #42, I, Sandwich Dominatrix, is by Denise Howell, the lawyer who is credited with coining the word "blawg" in 2002, when she was among the first lawyers to blog. Her post includes links to recent discussions of the word "blawg" on Language Log by Mark Liberman and Benjamin Zimmer concerning the use and phonology of her neologism, the "portmanteau" or "sandwich word" for law blog.

Commenting on the brouhaha in the blawgosphere over whether the word blawg should now be made obsolete, as some lawyers argue, Denise Howell concludes:
If you are among the folks — linguists excluded; it's their job — who might be spending a little too much thought and energy on this borderline microbial issue, please consider channeling your efforts toward something of more tangible benefit to mankind. (Doorknob spam, anyone?)
Douglas Adams, were he still with us, might question whether these froods know where their towels are.
Posted by abnu on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 @ 10:30 PM [ + ]

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