{"id":6674,"date":"2022-08-21T11:48:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T11:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2022-08-23T13:34:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T13:34:03","slug":"portmanteaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/uncategorized\/portmanteaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Portmanteaus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-top\" style=\"grid-template-columns:24% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Portmanteau.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6675 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Portmanteau.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Portmanteau-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>I&#8217;ve just had a lovely brunch with a friend. Now \u201cbrunch\u201d is a portmanteau, which is a French word for a suitcase. You may wonder what brunch has to do with suitcase. Of course you may be hoping to stay with your host after a few glasses of Prosecco, but it also means that two words are packed inside the word (breakfast + lunch) to become a very pleasant way to eat from morning to lunchtime!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Writers use portmanteaus to make their word choice more interesting. There are so many that have become part of our everyday language, some which I really like (such as brunch) and some which I think sound rather artificial:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nice portmanteaus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>romcom (romance + comedy) &#8211; a comedy story that has elements of a romance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>fortnight (fourteen + night) &#8211; period of fourteen nights, or two weeks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>emoticon (emotion + icon) &#8211; typed symbols that appear to show faces (e.g., \ud83d\ude42 ) before the introduction of emoji<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>netiquette (network + etiquette) &#8211; proper online behavior and manners<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>blog (web + log) &#8211; online journal or diary (vlog is the term for \u201cvideo log\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Artificial portmanteaus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>listicle (list + article) &#8211; article that features a list of items<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>dramedy (drama + comedy) &#8211; a story that has both dramatic and comedic elements<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>mockumentary (mock + documentary) &#8211; a fictional story in the style of a documentary movie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>imagineer (imagine + engineer) &#8211; an engineer who works on creative projects<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brexit (Britain + exit) &#8211; the 2016 referendum for Britain to leave the European Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last one is the worst of all!!!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, there are a few I like in German too such as \u201cJein\u201d and \u201cDenglisch\u201dbut I find\u201cVerschlimmbesserung\u201da bit strange<em> \u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you have any favourites?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just had a lovely brunch with a friend. Now \u201cbrunch\u201d is a portmanteau, which is a French word for a suitcase. You may wonder what brunch has to do with suitcase. Of course&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["de","en"],"languages":{"de":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jolliffe.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}