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A Positively Sickening Interest

I found out here, and confirmed it by checking my own Dictionary Widget, that the definition for "blog" on my computer is "a weblog: blogs run by twenty-something Americans with at least an unhealthy interest in computers." Huh! Well, I do admit to being twenty-something and I won't deny my interest borders on unhealthy, but I'm not American!

Anyway, this is a fairly inaccurate description; most of the blogs I read are Canadian, and at least one is written by someone a lot older than twenty-something. He's 30.

I have to say, considering this dictionary is sourced by the OED the English is fairly poor. After all, what does "at least an unhealthy interest" mean? Is there something worse? Like an "extremely unhealthy interest" or a "positively sickening interest?"

Comments

Thanks for pointing that out, Hil. I got carded a few weeks ago; can I still call myself twenty-something?

Ryan pointed me here, and I have to say that description is ridiculous.

American indeed.

Congrats on the wedding.

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