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Elements of Blog Funk, cont.

Metanoia – adding emphasis to a prior point in a statement by reinforcing it with a negative, usually 'nay,' proving that archaic vocabulary has done found itself a home in the blogosphere, nay, in our HEARTS.

• I went to dinner all alone, as usual; I'm becoming quite comfortable with it. Nay, I like it. Because then you can scan the seating area not for someone you know to eat with (that is so high school) but rather for someone you don't know but looks interesting. From 'Monday, August 30, 2004' - Otter Green

• I’m sure a geography professor could detail the science behind the abundantly�nay, the interminably�warm weather of Southern California, but all you really need to know is this: I can wear flip flops and tube tops every single day of the year. And thanks to Tori Spelling, I am not alone. From 'You Are Listening to Los Angeles' – Dooce

• If you could do those things, you would be well on your way to crafting a Bar Mitzvah booklet or a Party pamphlet that the rest of those whining, menopausal, glue-stick happy retirees would be impressed with…NAY, jealous of. From 'I Could Be Your Extreme Scrapbooker' – Paul Davidson

Gah. If rhetorical devices were a disease, I would toss off the prophylactics and run naked through the stacks of Sluttery Hall.