About Glot













































































What is Glot?

Excellent question; I’m beginning to like you. Glot means many things to many people. It was originally conceived as a nonsense word, because blarg was already taken. Some say it’s just as guttural and ugly as “blog.” Glot could also be a conjunction, hybrid, portmanteau, or splice of ‘glut’ and ‘clot’. Glut: -n an excessively abundant supply. Clot: -n a stuck-together mass formed by coagulation, as in “blood clot.” So it could just be a bunch of stuff that’s gotten stuck together. Glot might even be understood as a cognate of the Greek root glot, meaning ‘tongue’, as in polyglot1 or epiglottis2, and therefore convey a deeper understanding of its role as the primary outlet for the electronic, public, personal expression of the individual. To me, it means “this website I run.”

Some Stats

So far, there are 172 posts and 214 comments, contained within 7 categories, having 419 tags attached. The total word count is 81,137 for posts, 9,158 for comments.

The whole thing runs on WordPress version 3.0.1.

Akismet has protected this site from 4,845 spam comments, so don’t even try, sucka.

Plugins Turned On

As this site runs on WordPress, and since I can’t resist a nice plugin, this Glot uses many many plugins.

39 plugins, as a matter of fact. They are: