Diem carp’d

Hugh and I were exchanging some emails about my little faux pas over my previous post about Edelman (re a story that turned out not to be true).

Mea culpa, said Hugh. A kind response, but it was more to do with my own ‘click-and-post’ behaviour rather than ‘click-and-read-everything first.’ Precisely the kind of thing that’s ammunition for those who delight in pointing out the lack of responsibility exhibited by some bloggers in posting without fact-checking.

But it’s an easy lesson to learn – always read everything before you post especially if it’s news-ish.

So thinking about Hugh’s mea culpa response, I wanted to come up with a humourus attempt at saying ‘blogger beware’ (with a deliberate pun intended) in Latin which I studied at school in England many moons ago. My pretty puny attempt was ‘blogeat emptor.’ Latin scholars will no doubt guffaw mightily.

Hugh came up with some much better ones:

• caveat bloggus
• diem carp’d

Any more?