Shopping on line can be easy, simple and save you lots of money. It can also take a lot of your time, frustrate you, and result in unwanted purchases. Now the same can be said for regular high street shopping, but with the vast opportunity presented by the Internet it will pay you to spend a few minutes reading this and understanding how to better optimize your Portmanteau shopping experience:
1. Compare - without doubt the biggest advantage that the Portmanteau offers shoppers today is the ability to compare thousands of Portmanteau at a time. This is a great thing, but not necessarily all the time! Too much can be daunting at times so take advantage of the great comparison sites and where possible let them do the hard work for you.
2. Research - if it has been said it will be on the internet. Ignorance is no longer a justifiable reason for buying the wrong thing. Take the time to research in detail everything that you could possible want to know about
3. Testimonials - don't know anybody that has bought a Portmanteau? Wrong! If the Portmanteau is good the internet will let you know. Use the Internet as a friend and get testimonials before you buy.
4. Questions - Got a question about Portmanteau then search the Forums, FAQ's, Blogs etc. Don't be afraid to ask .....
5. Reputation - Never heard of the company selling Portmanteau? Don't worry, no reason why you should know every company in the world, but you know someone that does! Use the internet to find out what people are saying about Portmanteau and build up a picture of their reputation for sales, returns, customer service, delivery etc.
6. Returns - still worried that even after all of the above your Portmanteau wont be what you want? Check out the returns policy. There is so much competition now that someone, somewhere is bound to offer the terms that you are comfortable with.
7. Feedback - happy with your Portmanteau then let people know, after all you are depending on others people input in your buying decision, so why not give a little back.
8. Security - check for the yellow padlock on the Portmanteau site before you buy, and the s after http:/ /i.e. https:// = a secure site
9. Contact - got a question about Portmanteau, or want to leave a comment then check out the sites contact page. Reputable companies have them and respond.
10. Payment - ready to pay for your Portmanteau, then use your credit card or PayPal! Be aware of companies that don't accept them, there may be genuine reasons but given the huge amount of choice you have when buying online there is no reason at all not to buy via credit card or PayPal.
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portmanteau () is a word or
morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. A folk usage of
portmanteau refers to a word formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words (e.g.,
spork from
spoon and
fork,
animatronics from
animated and
electronics,
ginormous from
gigantic and
enormous, or
blaxploitation from
black and
Exploitation film or
guesstimate from
guess and
estimate). Typically, portmanteaux are
nonce words or neologisms - in recent years, the practice of creating them has become known as "smushing" or "smooshing", and can often be seen playing an active minor role in Fan fiction terminology#Smushing. Portmanteaux are commonly used in science fiction for a wide variety of technical words, such as
cyborg from
cybernetic and
organism.
Etymology and usage
This usage of the word was coined by Lewis Carroll in
Through the Looking-Glass (1871). In the book,
Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice words from
Jabberwocky, saying, “Well,
slithy means
lithe and slimy ... You see it's like a
portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.” Carroll often used such words to humorous effect in his work.
Portemanteau, from
Middle French porte (carry) and
manteau (a coat or cover), formerly referred to a large travelling bag or suitcase with two compartments, hence the linguistic idea of fusing two words and their meanings into one.
Portemanteau is rarely used to refer to a suitcase in
English language any more, since that type of a suitcase has fallen into disuse. (Note - amongst older Australians the diminutive term "port" is still often used to describe a carry-item containing personal belongings.) In
French language, the word has the different meaning of
coat hanger, and sometimes
coat rack, and is spelled
porte-manteau. The French word for
Portmanteau is
mot-valise, which translates literally as
suitcase-word.
Portmanteau word was the original phrase used to describe such words (as listed in dictionaries published as late as the early 2000s), but this is now usually abbreviated to simply
portmanteau. The term
blend is commonly used in modern linguistic usage for words such as
motel,
smog,
voluntell, and
brunch.
General summary
A
portmanteau morpheme is a
morpheme which fuses two or more grammatical categories (see fusional language). The classical example of such a morpheme in English is the verbal suffix
-s. This particular suffix carries (i.e., ports) at least four distinct inflectional meanings and imparts each of these onto the verb's meaning:
Spanish verb suffixes are also fusional with very many portmanteaux in the Spanish inflectional system.
A
portmanteau word is a word which fuses two function words. This use overlaps a bit with the folk term contraction (grammar), but linguists tend to avoid using the latter. Example: In French,
à +
les becomes
aux (), a single indivisible word which contains both meanings.
Outside the formal study of linguistics, the term
portmanteau is used in a different, yet still not clearly defined sense, to refer to a blending of the parts of two or more words (generally the first part of one word and the ending of a second word) to combine their meanings into a single
neologism. One of the more famous portmanteaux in
postmodernism Continental philosophy is
différance. Coined by Jacques Derrida,
différance is a word combining the terms to
differ and to
defer (in the Ferdinand de Saussure sense) to describe the fractured and eternally-semiotics character of language (see deconstruction).
See also
External links
- Portmanteau as a figure of speech.
- List of Acronyms and Portmanteaux
- Wordie.org page
A
portmanteau () is a word or morpheme that fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning. A folk usage of
portmanteau refers to a word formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words (e.g.,
spork from
spoon and
fork,
animatronics from
animated and
electronics,
ginormous from
gigantic and
enormous, or
blaxploitation from
black and
Exploitation film or
guesstimate from
guess and
estimate). Typically, portmanteaux are
nonce words or
neologisms - in recent years, the practice of creating them has become known as "smushing" or "smooshing", and can often be seen playing an active minor role in Fan fiction terminology#Smushing. Portmanteaux are commonly used in science fiction for a wide variety of technical words, such as
cyborg from
cybernetic and
organism.
Etymology and usage
This usage of the word was coined by
Lewis Carroll in
Through the Looking-Glass (1871). In the book, Humpty Dumpty explains to Alice words from
Jabberwocky, saying, “Well,
slithy means
lithe and slimy ... You see it's like a
portmanteau—there are two meanings packed up into one word.” Carroll often used such words to humorous effect in his work.
Portemanteau, from Middle French
porte (carry) and
manteau (a coat or cover), formerly referred to a large travelling bag or suitcase with two compartments, hence the linguistic idea of fusing two words and their meanings into one.
Portemanteau is rarely used to refer to a suitcase in English language any more, since that type of a suitcase has fallen into disuse. (Note - amongst older Australians the diminutive term "port" is still often used to describe a carry-item containing personal belongings.) In French language, the word has the different meaning of
coat hanger, and sometimes
coat rack, and is spelled
porte-manteau. The French word for
Portmanteau is
mot-valise, which translates literally as
suitcase-word.
Portmanteau word was the original phrase used to describe such words (as listed in dictionaries published as late as the early 2000s), but this is now usually abbreviated to simply
portmanteau. The term
blend is commonly used in modern linguistic usage for words such as
motel,
smog,
voluntell, and
brunch.
General summary
A
portmanteau morpheme is a morpheme which fuses two or more grammatical categories (see fusional language). The classical example of such a morpheme in English is the verbal suffix
-s. This particular suffix carries (i.e., ports) at least four distinct inflectional meanings and imparts each of these onto the verb's meaning:
Spanish verb suffixes are also fusional with very many portmanteaux in the Spanish inflectional system.
A
portmanteau word is a word which fuses two function words. This use overlaps a bit with the folk term
contraction (grammar), but linguists tend to avoid using the latter. Example: In French,
à +
les becomes
aux (), a single indivisible word which contains both meanings.
Outside the formal study of linguistics, the term
portmanteau is used in a different, yet still not clearly defined sense, to refer to a blending of the parts of two or more words (generally the first part of one word and the ending of a second word) to combine their meanings into a single neologism. One of the more famous portmanteaux in postmodernism
Continental philosophy is
différance. Coined by
Jacques Derrida,
différance is a word combining the terms to
differ and to
defer (in the Ferdinand de Saussure sense) to describe the fractured and eternally-
semiotics character of language (see deconstruction).
See also
External links
- Portmanteau as a figure of speech.
- List of Acronyms and Portmanteaux
- Wordie.org page
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