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Portmanteau word?
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Are you thinking of something like COINAGE which as well as the coin of the realm also refers to the invention of a new word or phrase?
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Portmanteau - as in Subo instead of Susan Boyle.
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I think sandy has it!
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It's not portmanteau, because there is no merging going on in the term; the two words in the one term are kept quite separate by the hyphen. The term "Hesperus-Vesper" referring to the Evening-Morning Star is the best example I can think of. The term I'm looking for is not the act of coining the term either, but the 'type' of term.
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It's a fairly uncommon technical linguistic term. I know I've seen it before, but I just can't recall it.
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Sorry, I just don't understand the Hesperus-Vesper example. Can you think of another for us?
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I've just realised I mean "Hesperus-Phosphorous", not that it matters too much.
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Does this help then?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege's_Puzzle |
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Would Mars-Ares serve as another example?
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Yes, like what Frege was referring to in a way. ie, that a man, say John, may be someone's brother and someone's son: so you could say John, the brother-son. But I'm looking for the technical term of this term. And it's not in the Frege article.
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Or Oedipus, son-lover of Jocasta?
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I guess "sofa-bed" would be an example too. The sofa-bed is one thing, but can have the different 'senses' or uses of being a sofa and a bed, although it is only one item in itself.
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son-lover would be an example too I think, yes.
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Ihttp://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/tautolo
gy.html s it a tautology ? |
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Pleonasm?
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Ahh found it - appositional compound..! thanks anyway (-: I don't think I was explaning myself particularly well!
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Thank you. If I ever need to use an appositional compound I'll think of this question.
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Hmm. I think you may have a head start, Sandy, since you're neither 'sandy' nor 'roe' in the strictly literal sense! Or would that be an exocentric compound rather than an appositional one? Orthodox?
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