Timeline for Can "sitcom" be considered an "acronym"? A Syllabic Acronym? Or a Hybrid Acronym?
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| Aug 29, 2014 at 12:00 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Sitcom is hardly a fusing sound, they're staccato from each other. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 11:55 | comment | added | Joel Brown | @Mari-LouA - I'm curious which part of the Wikipedia definition you feel fits sitcom poorly. Fusing-sounds, check. Fusing meanings, check. Blending two words, check. Admittedly not a single morph, but then neither is motel. The requirement that a portmanteau be a single morph is highly arguable. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 6:52 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | Independently from the fact that the Wikipedia link I posted and cited from contained the expression, portmanteau, I don't believe it to be an accurate description if we take the definition of portmanteau to be: "A portmanteau word fuses both the sounds and the meanings of its components, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph which represents two or more morphemes." as reported in the Wikipedia link you posted. | |
| Aug 29, 2014 at 1:49 | history | answered | Joel Brown | CC BY-SA 3.0 |