In today’s society, information technology is omnipresent—sometimes bordering on intrusive—but more often than not indispensable. Creating one’s own blog may no longer require technological wizardry, but finding the rights words just may. Internet speak descends mainly from English, although it can sometimes seem like another language altogether. To help us tweak our technological prose, several resources are available on the Net—where else!
The Office québécois de la langue française has made Le grand dictionnaire terminologique and La Banque de dépannage linguistique available to the public for years now. To keep up with the demands of emerging social media, the OQLF has added two new tools to its arsenal: Internet vocabulary and blog terminology databases. Not to be outdone, the Government of Canada recently made its linguistic tool Termium freely available to the public—although the latter may still be a little too complex for newbies.

Here are a few (French) anagrams on blogger terminology—a fun way to learn (even if the educational side outweighs the fun side just a little!)

So log onto your computer and if you’re still stumbling over yours words, just remember that these tools can never replace the indispensable work of a language specialist!