Talk:List of portmanteaus

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squircle from square and circle, trit (bit + trinary), tryte (byte + trinary) 110.175.156.215 (talk) 02:02, 2 August 2015 (UTC)anonymous[reply]

Chinglish, Franglais, Spanglish

Was surpised to find these quite well known and well used portmanteaux were not on a list which includes examples far less familiar. They are certainly not objectionable. Some examples should contain a (cf.) note to refer readers to comparable examples. I have done this with these three. Myles325a (talk) 05:36, 26 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

They aren't objectionable nearly so much as they aren't well-know, well-used, or eve properly descriptive of what they're supposedly combining. Perhaps these words are used commonly in Europe, but they aren't in the United States. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.201.44.14 (talk) 00:17, 23 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

fugly / "fucking ugly"

Any objection to adding this? It's persistent, well-known and has a [Wiktionary entry] describing it as a blend.

Validity of certain items on the list

Portmanteau, as is understood by most, was coined (in its modern usage, don't get pedantic on me) by Lewis Caroll. I would argue that some entries don't meet the basic criteria of "two meanings packed up into one word".

In particular, the ones derived from two names:

Brangelina Krepkenstein Debian Mattell Mitel Waitrose

All of the examples derive their meaning not from the squishing of words together, but from the meaning attributed to those names after. Debra and Ian? Meaningless. Debian, however is not, but the meaning is not derived from being a portmanteau, but because of what Debian has become.

Thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dirril (talk • contribs) 01:06, 7 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I totally agree. Half of these terms are either buzzwords associated with a passing fad or used exclusively by an incredibly small group of people and warrant at least some designation signifying them as such. "Pornado" and "Blatitude" make the list; where are "hacktivists", "ridonculous" and other such portmanteaux-of-the-now?

Osiriscorleone (talk) 07:32, 9 July 2011 (UTC)osiriscorleone[reply]

Most of this list reads like a copy and paste from urbandictionary.com. I think this list should be established portmanteaux like guesstimation, which has been around since the 1940's. Not blaccent or pornado or fratire or anything that is fad words from the last decade. I'm highly tempted to go through the entire list and delete half the stuff on it.

IManOM (talk) 15:56, 13 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'll back you up on that.

Osiriscorleone (talk) 21:46, 24 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]