Ah, the illustrious portmanteau. We English speakers seem to really love making up new words. I wonder if this is mostly an English phenomenon? I've tried with Spanish a lot of times here in Ecuador, with little success. The only one I can think of that I've repeatedly tried to get to catch on is "desaymuerzo" for "brunch" (desayuno = breakfast, almuerzo = lunch).
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 2:16 PM Merle Lefkoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Has the list noticed the new perfect word for frustrated climatologists > and epidemiologists: Cassandrafreude. This is like labradoodle, another > "portmanteau" word. One definition offered is "the bitter pleasure of > things going wrong in exactly the way you predicted but no one believed you > when it could have made a difference." Any other suggested definitions? > You go, Nick! > > > -- > Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. > President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy > emergentdiplomacy.org > Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA > [email protected] <[email protected]> > mobile: (303) 859-5609 > skype: merle.lelfkoff2 > twitter: @Merle_Lefkoff > -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . > ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >
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