Mot du jour: "joueb"
Take the words "web" and "log" and you get a global phenomenon called "blog". It's not the prettiest of terms but it does the job. English continues to be the No. 1 blogging language but other tongues are getting in on the act. In Spanish, "bitacora" has established itself as the accepted substitute for "blog", but the question is not fully settled in French.
The leading contender, and a word that's very much in the spirit of "blog", is "joueb", a contraction of "journal web". A search for "joueb" on Google produces more than 5,000 results. Challenging "joueb" for the title is "carnet", a word from journalism, where a "carnet mondain" is a society column. Xtof originally was "Un blogue, un weblog, un joueb" but now calls itself a "Carnet Web," meaning a "Web notebook/Web journal".
