Talk:List of portmanteaux

message: "Kramit from Kermit and Damnit, this word was said in some song about Big Bird and Kermit getting stoned. Sesame Street was referred to as "Sensimilla Street" in that song." This is completely unappropiate for wikipedia's standards. Cite the song and artist before posting this again.
:This is not necessarily a portmanteau, either. It always struck me as "cram it".—überRegenbogen (talk) 08:52, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unfit

message: The plural of portmanteau (which comes from porte-manteau) would be portmanteaux (from portes-manteaux: the x is not pronounced!) and NOT portmanteaus!—Kbolino 07:30, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: English words borrowed from other languages do not always follow the rules of their parent language when it comes to pluralization and conjugation. Dictionary.com gives both portmanteaus and portmanteaux as acceptable, with portmanteaus listed first. --Pagrashtak 03:01, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Both American Heritage and Webster's say that Portmanteaus is the most common plural form.  I don't really consider Dictionary.com authoritative and it seems that they are unaware that Unicode exists: code page U+0100–017F [Latin Extended-A] and the character U+0259 [code page U+0250–02AF, IPA Extensions], all of which are defined in Arial Unicode MS, provide the characters for which they use images as subsitutes. —Kbolino 07:51, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Plural form

message: We should split this list into different articles since portmanteau words are neologistically coined. --SuperDude 19:41, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A section of this list has just got it's own article now, neologisms can now be controlled onto separate lists. --Nintendude 00:44, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structured list? 

message: I removed the following, which were self-referential and not really fitting with the list:
*-cruft from words about VfD articles and fancruft is the suffix for certain neologistic portmanteaus made up by people who nominate Wikipedia articles with fancruft for deletion
*Wikipedian from Wikipedia and Encyclopedian; refers to a "Wikipedia" enthusiast or an active editor
The former doesn't list anything specific, and is far too self-referential.  The latter is rather debatable as a portmanteau, since you could argue that Wikipedian is just the word that logically follows from the word Wikipedia to describe a user. 
kmccoy (talk) 21:20, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed self-references 

message: The -lish list is largely duplicated in the General section and the Other Languages section. Unless someone objects I'll copy unique entries from the General section and reduce it to a reference from the General section to the Other Languages section. JimTheFrog 04:14, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: JimTheFrog, I agree with your suggestion and the present placement of the -list list has bothered me before.  
SOCIOPOWER 17:29, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, changes made. JimTheFrog 06:01, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicate -lish list 

message: What about Engrish??? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.101.216.127 (talk • contribs) .
: Engrish is a corruption of English based on the Japanese consonant that sounds roughly between an English l and r. It's not a portmanteau because it's a modification of a single word, not a combination of two words. -- TKD 09:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Engrish, incluude it 

message: These seem quite unnecessary, as well as offensive. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.128.236.59 (talk • contribs) .
:Wikipedia is not censored, and the list, while offensive to some, is possibly useful information. -- TKD 22:40, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swears? 

message: There's significant duplication in the separate "List of hybrid word puns used in pop culture" entry, referenced from the "Art, literature and entertainment (pop culture)" section of this entry. I know this is already a pretty large entry, but it would seem cleaner to delete the other list and pull it back into this one. At what point does a portmanteau become "pop" enough to go in the other list? --JimTheFrog 09:26, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For example, TKD just added machinima (which is fine), but it was already in the "List of hybrid word puns used in pop culture" article. --JimTheFrog 22:01, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely forgot about that list when I went to add it. I would be in favor of merging the two lists. It seems arbitrary, not to mention confusing, that marketing, TV, and other fiction are here while that sublist is not. Plus, "machinima" could also conceivably fit under "computer and technology puns". I'm not sure what to do about the length of the list, but I think the majority of the puns here could be considered "pop-culture" in one way or another -- even some of the ones under the "general" heading (e.g., animatronics, RoboCop). I almost think that a straight alphabetical list would be least confusing. Yeah, it'll be long, but at least we won't have to worry about classification and pigeonholing some terms. -- TKD 22:35, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication in pop culture list 

message: I can see at least one word that falls into this category: "bungry". I'm sure there are others too.
*Unless anyone objects, I'll delete any terms that either are not in common usage, have their own article, have a reference or external link with their use, or a really good explanation of the term's use. Sexile? Please. Instead of straight-up deletion, how about asking for citations and waiting a week or so, then deleting? Thoughts anyone? Also I've noticed a few words occur multiples times on the list, but I'm too lazy to fix them at this time. :) Porlob 21:59, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The "citation needed" tags have been up for a while now. I'm deleting anything not referenced or in common usage. Porlob 13:58, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia is not for things made up in school one day

message: I moved all kinds of things around and catgorized the above named section into individual types of media I think much or all of the marketing section should be moved into here, either into the appropriate section (e.g., "Television" for "sitcom"), or in an "advertizing" or "marketing" subsection within. Anyone? Porlob 16:29, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Arts, literature, media and popular culture

message: I'm just made a new series of changes to clean this article up. There are numerous syllabic abbreviations that still need to be removed. Porlob 16:29, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More changes

message: isn't the word portmanteau itself a portmanteau ? since it is condensed from the (French) "porter" (to carry) and "manteau". — MFH:Talk 22:17, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  portmanteau 

message: There are many words in this list that don't belong here.  An easy way to tell if the word you're going to add is in common usage or not is to:
#Look it up in a dictionary.
#Apply the google test.
E.g., "gromelet", which is not in the dictionary, gets only 42 google hits, only 5 of which are in English.  Similarly "Grood" as far as I can tell is not even a blend, it's a slang term from homestarrunner.--Will.i.am 20:20, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding to this list 

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