Timeline for Are there rules for constructing portmanteaux?
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| Dec 4, 2015 at 3:24 | answer | added | Euan M | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 3, 2015 at 21:03 | comment | added | SAH | There are lots of portmanteaus, now official parts of the language, that have "bad" etymological mixes according to your standards. For example: monopolar, barristorial | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 18:16 | answer | added | tchrist♦ | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 18:02 | answer | added | chaos | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 17:36 | history | edited | tchrist♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2012 at 17:30 | history | edited | New Alexandria | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2012 at 10:46 | comment | added | Kris | Why all the down votes! Are we happy to indulge in mediocre questions/ homework questions for ever? OK, the Q. may not have been well-formulated, which is a different matter. | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 7:15 | comment | added | SF. | I'd disagree with your rules. Warhammer 4000's Grimdark has pretty well established itself as a name for literature/art genre. And Orwell's doubleplusungood constantly travels around the edges of the language. | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 2:23 | comment | added | New Alexandria | Conventions mature into rules. Who is to say that Jenjamin is is not viable? | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 2:11 | comment | added | lonstar | Rules? More like conventions, and most of those are more about production (phonotactics) than actual syntax. Bennifer is perfectly OK but Jenjamin was not. Rules in play there? | |
| Jul 21, 2012 at 2:10 | history | edited | New Alexandria | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 20, 2012 at 22:42 | comment | added | Mitch | It's gotta sound good? | |
| Jul 20, 2012 at 22:41 | comment | added | Daniel Harbour | Can you clarify the question with some examples of what you (do and don't) mean? If you're referring to compounding in the standard sense, the topic is enormous | |
| Jul 20, 2012 at 22:34 | history | asked | New Alexandria | CC BY-SA 3.0 |