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Klemperer's words (quoted from a review of two books by David Crystal in the Guardian of 11 February 2006) are a sobering reply to Crystal's own frothy rhapsodizing. But my web life must go on. I have to make a living, like other librarians, immersed in its use and misuse of language. And the clever or clunky neologisms and word play just keep swarming up from the web's fertile depths. Only yesterday I discovered hooeey, a new bookmarking and tracking service from India that records your complete browsing history, allowing you to share interesting web pages with others easily and to manage your browsing time more efficiently — sort of a del.icio.us plus Google Web History combined. Where on earth did they find that name? Hoo knows? What does it all mean? More Web 2.0 word weaving. I see a lot of hooey in the future. But as William Gibson has remarked, we can't do futures anymore.