Talk:Blend word

message: What is the difference between a blend and a portmanteau? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.140.218.179 (talk) 2008-04-08T04:12:45
:What non-linguists call portmanteaux are blends.  Portmanteaux now refer to fused function words in linguistics. - TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 11:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That doesn't answer the earlier poster's question. The description of "Blend" appears to define what is commonly known in the English language (linguist or not) as a "Portmanteau". If "Blend" and "Portmanteau" are indeed different concepts, a linguist should be able to define the differing characteristics and support this with references. If they cannot, there is no need for two articles.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.6.35.235 (talk) 00:10, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: In linguistics, a portmanteau – more precisely a portmanteau morpheme – is a fusional morpheme, that is, a morpheme that combines the functions of several others, for example, won't fusing will (marker of the future tense) and not (marker of negation); this is usually said of function words, not lexical words. A blend – more precisely a blend word – is a word that fuses several lexical words and their meanings, and is popularly called a "portmanteau (word)" in English. Thus, portmanteau morphemes are different from blend words, which themselves are the same as so-called "portmanteau words". Therefore, if anything, the current content of portmanteau pertaining to blends should be merged into this article, portmanteau should then be renamed into portmanteau morpheme, and portmanteau (disambiguation) should then be renamed to portmanteau. Alternatively, to avoid instantly turning a ton of links into links to a disambiguation page, after renaming portmanteau to portmanteau morpheme, portmanteau could be turned into a redirect here, and a hatnote pointing to portmanteau (disambiguation) could then be added to this article. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 01:37, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguity? 

message: I think this page should be renamed to blend (linguistics), and blend should instead redirect to blend (disambiguation). There are many common uses of the word blend aside from its use in linguistics. Jarble (talk) 03:32, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename page to ''blend (linguistics)'' 

message: A note on the page says there is a proposal to port it to portmanteau or blend that article into this one.  Neither move seems to me a good idea.  This was well stated on the other talkpage: "In linguistics, a portmanteau is a word analyzed as representing two underlying morphemes (commonly two function words), while a blend is a neologism created by phonological merger of two words. For instance, the French du is a portmanteau that replaces de le, which is never used. On the other hand, smog is a blend created from smoke and fog, but it doesn't mean 'smoke fog.' I think some of the contents of portmanteau should be moved to blend. - TAKASUGI Shinji 00:37, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it's the correct linguistic term and calling blends portmanteaux is a popular mistake. Duh! --Florian Blaschke (talk) 17:05, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Wikipedia might be partially responsible for 'popularising' the word portmanteau (outside of academic circles). The archived discussions from the portmaneau talk page are....enlightening. Firejuggler86 (talk) 19:47, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Portmanteau Merger 

message: The references are of excellent quality. However, some of the links are not functioning and they load an error page. Most of the facts can be found in the links so there is no issue with finding information on a particular fact. All the information in the article is relevant. What can be helpful is including more examples of where blend words would be used and be more direct such as in advertising. Showing blend words in different languages is great but it does not grasp the main idea of blend words since each language has their own rules. This article has no bias and remain relatively neutral. There are no signs of conflicting ideas and concepts. Most of the information in this article comes from online textbooks and articles of which appear to remain neutral as well. None of the viewpoints are over or underrepresented. They all explain the main idea of what blend words are and how they are formed. All the links work with the few exceptions in the reference section. There are a few close paraphrases but no part of the article is plagiarized. All of the paraphrasing is done through original notes. All of the information is up-to-date. The article could use some more background information on why blend words are created such as linking the blend words to linguistic creativity and productivity. What can also be added is what would cause speakers to use blended words that are unproductive.
I have two questions:
How would you clarify and go more in depth with the concepts differences between Portmanteau and Blend words? 
Are blend words going occur more often in foreign languages? JC29226 (talk) 23:11, 26 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Critque 

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message: Are there any linguistics articles on Wikipedia Ghilad has not spammed with his own "research"? Seriously, Ghilad, calm down. We don't need your self-promotion on every Wikipedia linguistics article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.92.86.81 (talk) 09:04, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ghilad Zuckerman 

message: According to another article, a portmanteau  is a linguistic blend of words. What's more, all blends, named here (in the current article) are also on the list of portmanteaus. Then, what is the difference between a portmanteau and blend? Is there any blend that is not a portmanteau, or any portmanteau that is not a blend? Vikom (talk) 00:53, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no difference. Blend is the technical term, portmanteau (word) the popular term, but that one is technically a misnomer because in linguistics, portmanteau already refers to portmanteau morphs. See also my comment at Talk:Portmanteau#"Blend" is the same. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 14:36, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Then why have two separate articles? --Lord Belbury (talk) 11:26, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Why indeed. My pet theories are that (1) it makes people feel special to know and use the more seemingly obscure word portmanteau, and (2) non-specialists assume that specialists must use the obscure word, since it is "special". In my opinion, Portmanteau ought not to exist, but I doubt there is consensus for such an opinion. Cnilep (talk) 02:01, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think there is consensus, but just scattered all over the place. –Austronesier (talk) 09:50, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I hope you are right. I am discouraged by the various arguments at Talk:Portmanteau dating back to the early aughts and the proposed merges on this page without action, as well as things like Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of portmanteaux. Cnilep (talk) 07:29, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Again: blend or portmanteau? 

message: Dear Writer,
Be aware, this is not a critic but an respect. You have turned to the subject in an elaborate way.
Thanks.
85.149.24.135 (talk) 09:51, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Respect