laughedatbytime Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 According to Wikipedia, a portmanteau is a combination of two (or more) words or morphemes, and their definitions, into one new word.. A portmanteau fuses both the sounds and the meanings of its components, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or the term "wurly" to describe hair that is both wavy and curly. I'll start with one that makes me want to puke every time I hear it: staycation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ancient Ways Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 This is kind of the basis for how German speaking people make new words. Very common to find multiple words smashed together to make one giant word. A easy one is Volkswagen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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laughedatbytime Posted July 26, 2013 Author Share Posted July 26, 2013 This is kind of the basis for how German speaking people make new words. Very common to find multiple words smashed together to make one giant word. A easy one is Volkswagenhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10095976/Germany-drops-its-longest-word-Rindfleischeti....html Germany's longest word - Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz - a 63-letter long title of a law regulating the testing of beef, has officially ceased to exist. The word - which refers to the "law for the delegation of monitoring beef labelling", has been repealed by a regional parliament after the EU lifted a recommendation to carry out BSE tests on healthy cattle. German is famous for its compound nouns, which frequently become so cumbersome they have to be reduced to abbreviations. The beef labelling law, introduced in 1999 to protect consumers from BSE, was commonly transcribed as the "RkReÜAÜG", but even everyday words are shortened to initials so Lastkraftwagen - lorry - becomes Lkw. Professor Anatol Stefanowitsch, a linguistics expert at the Free University of Berlin, told the German news agency dpa that the beef labelling law was the longest "authentic" word in the German language. The law was considered a legitimate word by linguists because it appears in official texts, but it never actually appeared in the dictionaries, because compilers of the standard German dictionary Duden judge words for inclusion based on their frequency of use. The longest word with a dictionary entry, according to Duden is at 36 letters, Kraftfahrzeug-Haftpflichtversicherung, motor vehicle liability insurance. However a 39-letter word, Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften, insurance companies providing legal protection, is considered the longest German word in everyday use by the Guinness Book of World Records. In theory, a German word can be infinitely long. Unlike in English, an extra concept can simply be added to the existing word indefinitely. Such extended words are sometimes known as Bandwurmwörter - "tapeworm words". In an essay on the Germany language, Mark Twain observed: "Some German words are so long that they have a perspective." The Teutonic fondness for sticking nouns together has resulted in other famous tongue-twisters such as: Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän - Danube steamship company captain - which clocks in at 42 letters. It has become a parlour game to lengthen the steamship captain's name, by creating new words such as Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwe, the captain's widow. And, Donaudampfschifffahrtskapitänsmütze - the captain's hat. At 80 letters, the longest word ever composed in German is Donaudampfschifffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft, the "Association for Subordinate Officials of the Head Office Management of the Danube Steamboat Electrical Services". The longest word in the Oxford Dictionary of English is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis - at 45 letters. Its definition is "an artificial long word said to mean a lung disease casued by inhaling very fine ash and sand dust. The longest word to be found in Britain is the Welsh place name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. I thought portmanteaus required there to be only part of one or each word, but it's not clear from the definition (at least to me) that this is the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenJennings Posted July 27, 2013 Share Posted July 27, 2013 I always like to call Glenn Beck "Gleck" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Babycat Posted October 21, 2013 Share Posted October 21, 2013 So is a 'portmanteau' anything like 'shipping'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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