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Friday, April 17, 2009

COMPOUND WORDS

I dislike the following webinar, nettiquette, sexting, mompreneurs.

Please, stop squishing words together, we have plenty of good words.


3 comments:

  1. Interesting. I hate when compound words are shortened into fake non-compound words; i.e. "weblog" shortened to "blog". (But I don't hate that as much as I hate the word "mompreneurs".

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  2. I heart pushing words together and shortening them, too. Examples:
    1) I'm still trying to get Wickets (Wicked tickets - which kind of makes me want to play croquet).
    2) Do you want to buy my guitar? It's in mint condish...
    See? Isn't that fun?

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  3. The correct word is portmanteau--a word that should also probably be added to this list.

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