The Death of Vlog

We have reached the most boring stretch of the year in terms of American sports. There is absolutely nothing of consequence occurring at the moment in the world of sports, so I would like to go on a tangent regarding a recent pet peeve of mine, a pet peeve currently confined to the Internet, but threatening to make its way into everyday discourse.

My issue is with the word "vlog," or rather the fact that "vlog" should not be an accepted new word. "vlog," meaning "video log," falls under a category of words known as blends, similar to compound words in that they are the product of combining two existing words, with the difference between a compound and a blend being that in a blend, part of the combined words is deleted. Examples of English blends are smog (smoke+fog), brunch (breakfast+lunch), and infomercial (info+commercial). It is most likely that "video" and "log" were blended into "vlog" as a means of equating it with the similar and related blend, "blog" (web+log). The major linguistic difference between "vlog" and "blog" lies in the laws of new word coinage; more specifically, that "blog" conforms to these laws, whereas "vlog" does not. The coinage of a new word must conform to possible English sound and spelling combinations, and "vlog" does not fit this profile. This is the reason why I can't make up a word along the lines of "ndbkae" because English words do not start with the combination of "nd" and don't string together the four consonants "ndbk" at any time. "vl" only occurs at the beginning of a word in English in the case of adoptions of foreign proper nouns, usually from Russian, such as the name "Vladimir" or the city "Vladivostok", which do not fall under the category of word coinage, as they already exist in a different language and are merely adoptions. "Blog" conforms to the rules of coinage, such as in words like "block" or "black." It would be reasonable to create a word that conforms to this form, such as "blick" or "bleck," which are possible new words, as long as one attaches a meaning and could get "blick" or "bleck" into common usage. "Vlog," though, should not be allowed to continue functioning as a free morpheme, and most certainly should not be accepted into the English language. Now, if it were to be "v-log" or "vidog" or "vilog," then I could get behind it as a new term, but until this change is made, I'm putting a stop to this nonsense "word." Anyway, v-logs are awful; utterly boring, self-indulgent tripe.