The many different ways to say 'comment'
I have to do a kwalitative research about social text analysis where I have to use a text from the internet. It's specified to for instance comments on blogs or threads on a forum. This gave me a soul soothing excuse to bloghop away and see what I'd find. Next to the fact that there are tons of blogs out there that nobody seems to read at all (thank you, all the people who take the little time to watch/read my blog now and then). But besides that something else struck me.
It's the name of the 'comment button'. There are a bunch of different ones. Untill now I've found the following:
Dutch Blogs(translation in brackets, n stands for any number):
- n Meningen (opinions)
- n Details & reacties (details & reactions)
- Nog geen reacties, pas één reactie, al twee reacties (no reactions, only one reaction, already two (or three etc) reactions)
- the same as the above, but then with numbers instead of writing it out
- Dit bericht heeft n reacties (this message has n reactions)
- Reageer hier! n reacties (React here! n reactions)
- comments (in English, but it's a Dutch blog!)
English (ín English, not by definition from England!)- no/(n) comment(s)
- n contributions
- n answers
- n sex gods and goddesses (yes Debbie, that's from your blog ;) )
- n thoughts
- n shout outs for the attention whore
- n rants and reactions
- comments[n]
- no comments (otherwise (n)comments)
- n comments so far: add yours
German
- n Kommentare (n comments)
French- n commentaires (n comments)
- n commentaires Liens vers ce message blog (n comments ... for this message blog?)
Any language
sometimes there's just no option to leave a comment.
If you find others, leave it in the comments with a link to the source! Maybe I'll use this information for something in the future, for now it's just interesting.
It's the name of the 'comment button'. There are a bunch of different ones. Untill now I've found the following:
Dutch Blogs(translation in brackets, n stands for any number):
- n Meningen (opinions)
- n Details & reacties (details & reactions)
- Nog geen reacties, pas één reactie, al twee reacties (no reactions, only one reaction, already two (or three etc) reactions)
- the same as the above, but then with numbers instead of writing it out
- Dit bericht heeft n reacties (this message has n reactions)
- Reageer hier! n reacties (React here! n reactions)
- comments (in English, but it's a Dutch blog!)
English (ín English, not by definition from England!)- no/(n) comment(s)
- n contributions
- n answers
- n sex gods and goddesses (yes Debbie, that's from your blog ;) )
- n thoughts
- n shout outs for the attention whore
- n rants and reactions
- comments[n]
- no comments (otherwise (n)comments)
- n comments so far: add yours
German
- n Kommentare (n comments)
French- n commentaires (n comments)
- n commentaires Liens vers ce message blog (n comments ... for this message blog?)
Any language
sometimes there's just no option to leave a comment.
If you find others, leave it in the comments with a link to the source! Maybe I'll use this information for something in the future, for now it's just interesting.


4 Comments:
Well this is a huge list.
Who is the blogger who says hot cheetos fucker? He had a funny comment system I think.
Maybe it was counting the number of cheetos?
Well I've seen "n hot people" and "n people said Hi!" and "n screamed my name" while randomly bloghopping.
LOL. I use "n left cookie crumbs" coz of my blog title.
I've been bloghopping like a frog and found some more (will update later).
@R2K: haven't found that one..(I did check your entire blogroll)
@ Nashe^: added yours too!
I think it's cool if it's fitting/original (like yours) instead of just making something up that sounds like it was meant to be funny...but failed.
Fail Blog seems to call them "Failures In Communication"
http://failblog.org/2008/11/22/elephant-fail/
Itching to Stitch's Blog has "Angels Flying By" http://itchingtostitch.blogspot.com/
Sure there are others, especially from the stitching blogs I've visited but I've got to get ready for Church now.
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