Aggregator

April 14, 2005

Transblawg gives a link to a very handy language blog aggregator (delightfully named langwich sandwich) created by Kalebeul's Trevor. I'd quite like to know why he chose to list the French version of this blog and not the English version… Anyway, this led me to wonder whether the noun aggregator is linked to the adjective gregarious, and it is. Both terms come from grega-re (to collect), which in turn comes from grex, gregis,, flock or herd in Latin. So a link aggregator is a herd of links, which is a nice image, whereas gregarious people enjoy being part of a flock or group of people.

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Posted by céline on April 14, 2005
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I'm sorry, I honestly hadn't noticed that you had an English version as well!

Posted by trevor@k’alebřl on April 15, 2005 10:51 AM

No need to apologise, I was just intrigued! :-)

Posted by céline on April 15, 2005 10:55 AM

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