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The beautiful thing about language is that it changes to reflect the times. Sometimes we even have to coin our own
words and phrases for new things! Unfortunately, few-to-none of us are William Shakespeare, so the new words
usually end up being portmanteaus. The term means a word that’s constructed by taking some parts of two words,
and making a new one. It’s also known as a blend in linguistics. Probably the most egregious use is meshing
names of celebrity couples like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie into Brangelina, all in the name of efficiency of
spreading celebrity gossip. It has other, legitimate uses, like making new state (the newly independent state of
Tanganyika and Zanzibar chose “Tanzania”) or animal names (“liger” comes from “lion” and “tiger”).
Of course, many of these words come from urbandictionary.com, a website dedicated to user submitted definitions
of new words. As such, many of them are neologisms, not seeing much official recognition… yet. However, if you
start using them yourself, then who knows, maybe you’ll get them included in all sorts of prestigious dictionaries! If
“meatspace” (meaning the non-virtual world, also known as “reality”) managed to get into Oxford dictionary,
anything can!
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