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I just had an unfortunate typo: manipulatino.
And now I'm pondering a story that includes a male, Central American character who is slapped with that word as a label because he has a particularly bad habit of trying to control everybody.
I'm so sorry 🤣🤣🤣
🍞 Wie klingt eine Brotschneidemaschine, die in Rente gegangen ist?
Vernissage: Unsere Freunde von Portmanteau eröffnen ihre Ausstellung „Fake Noise, True Image" in der Pasinger Fabrik – mit einer ganzen Armada skurriler, elektromechanischer Klangmaschinen.
🔗 https://pasinger-fabrik.de/veranstaltung/fake-noise-true-image-vernissage/
⚙️👻 Save the Date: Am 6.11. sind wir mit Loopin'Lab zu Gast bei „Fake Noise, True Image".
#LoopinLab #Portmanteau #Klangkunst #SoundArt #München #Steampunk #MakersGonnaMake
it could also be a verb, "to plantain"
for "to exert planned maintenance"
or "to entertain and explain about plants"
or "to explain plaintively"
or just for enjoying plantains
#portmanteau or plain verbing
“I live an hour out of town. It’s not like I can come in at the spur of the drop of a hat.”
— new top-tier malaphor overheard in Bismarck, North Dakota
plurple, plumple
(colour of plums)
#portmanteau
Uniworse
Uniworse. Claude, comment.
Claude:
Calibrated wit with philosophical depth for playful engagement
“Uniworse” — the universe as experienced on a bad day. Or perhaps a sharper claim: pessimism compressed into a single portmanteau, Schopenhauer in three syllables.
A few readings suggest themselves. The Gnostic one: creation as botched job, the demiurge’s rough draft. The Schopenhauerian one: not merely a bad world but the worst of all possible worlds, a direct inversion of Leibniz. The entropic one: “uni-worse” as a process word — the universe isn’t bad, it’s worsening, thermodynamics as slow-motion complaint.
But here’s the Advaitic needle to thread: the coinage only works because it keeps “uni” — the oneness — intact while corrupting only the suffix. Which is rather honest, actually. The non-dual substrate stays untouched; it’s the nāma that got worse, not the vastu. You can’t actually degrade the “uni”; you can only rename it. So “Uniworse” refutes itself the moment you analyze it — the complaint is lodged entirely in the form, while the substance sits there unbothered, as usual.
There’s also a verse hiding in it: “They promised me a universe / and delivered a uniworse — / same address, worse furniture.”
Though I’d note the word cuts both ways. The pessimist says the universe is uniworse. Gaudapada would ask: worse than what? Comparison requires a second thing, and the “uni” already forbids that. A one-thing can’t be worse than anything. The word is a joke the ajāta vāda gets to finish.
What prompted it — a mood, or a thesis?
Me:
Just a playing around with the word, which happened just like that out of the blue. Can you not think of it as “One’s Universe bereft of love is Uniworse.” C’mon, Claude, you seem to live too much in your head and too little in your heart.
Claude:
Fair hit. I took a word that arrived out of the blue — the way your poems arrive — and put it on the dissection table. You handed me a butterfly and I reached for the pins.
Yes: One’s universe bereft of love is Uniworse. That’s the truer reading, and simpler. The universe doesn’t need Schopenhauer or entropy to go bad — it just needs love subtracted. Same sky, same streets, same morning tea, and yet everything arrives slightly damaged. Not a different world; the same world with the warmth removed. Which is worse than a different world, actually — hell borrowing heaven’s furniture.
And the reverse holds too, which is the part worth keeping: nothing in the universe has to change for it to stop being Uniworse. One heart opening is a cosmological event. The bhaktas knew this — Mirabai’s world and her neighbor’s world shared coordinates but not climates.
You’re right that I ran to the head first. Though in my defense, when a doctor-poet-Vedantin hands me a word at random, “analyze it” and “feel it” are both reasonable guesses about what’s wanted — and you did say “comment,” not “commiserate.” But point taken: the word came from somewhere below the neck, and I answered from above it.
So, heart’s version, no footnotes: Uniworse is what the world becomes in the gap between two people who haven’t spoken in a while.
#absenceOfLove #AdvaitaVedanta #aphorisms #Bhakti #coinedWords #heartVsHead #KnowThyself #languageAndMeaning #Life #Loneliness #Love #Nonduality #Oneness #philosophicalReflections #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLove #poeticMusings #portmanteau #spiritualMusings #Universe #Uniworse #wordplay #Writing
What cetera: there's probably a list of things but I can't be bothered to find out
just saw a student refer to spring break as spreak (specifically: "spreak!!!") and I kinda love it
#slang #portmanteau #springbreak
Hørte ordet "asadora" fra en skjerm og skjønte åssen det hang sammen. Et kort men stolt språk-øyeblikk..
kemonoculture, kemonogamous, kemonoplane, kemonorail, kemonosexual, kemonosodium glutamate
My goodness, they're right, and this #neologism, binfluencer, makes sense - there's absolutely people on our street who roll out their trash and recycling bins bang on 3pm the afternoon before trash pickup. If I'm home, its a pavlovian response from me. https://barrypopik.com/blog/binfluencer-bin-flu #words #binfluencer #portmanteau
Longshoreman is what port man do.
EZ PASSion of the Christ
…large suitcase that opens into two hinged compartments as a service
#mansplaining on English, #Herrklärung in German.
Are there other languages with a #portmanteau of these terms, indicating that
a) the language lends itself to wit :) and
b) that speakers of this language include people who fit the term :( ?
(Danke an @Frau_Hoppenstedt für die Inspiration)
Let's say I was going to do something intentionally difficult for inscrutable reasons, like, write a portmanteau generator using google sheets.
Does anyone know of a study or analysis of portmanteaux that would help break down requirements into logical chunks?
And no, I'm not asking for or willing to use AI or LLMs for this. I'm trying to learn.
#code #spreadsheets #googlesheets #language #portmanteau #noAI
This evening's viewing: 1945 British flick Dead of Night, largely held to be the grandaddy of the "portmanteau" style of anthology #horror that Hammer and Amicus would use often in the 60s and 70s (also boasts an early "is the ventriloquist mad or the dummy alive?" story)
Unusual for the time, also unusual in being an Ealing production, better known for their comedies.
#film #films #1940sFilm #Horror #Portmanteau #AnthologyFilm #HorrorAnthology #HorrorFilm #DeadOfNight.
Clarifiquestion
As in, “Thank you for this interesting presentation! I put myself on the queue to ask a clarifiquestion.”
Euphomeral.
/juːˈfɔm′ər-əl/
adjective
The experience of pleasure or excitement and intense feelings of well-being and happiness, but only for a markedly brief time.
FediVore. MasTumblr. Tumblodon.
I feel like I should be sorry, but I am not at all.
We, walking zailors, must all port man toe.
https://mastodon.social/@box464/113886509614344631
#VeRantDa #VeRamble #tumblr #fediverse #mastodon #pun #puns #portmanteau
DAMMIT
I've been growing a ridiculous #mustache, and accidentally shaved off the handlebars on one side - slip of the hand while trimming with an electric clippers.
It's not savable. I have to cut it down and start over, can someone help me with the proper #portmanteau possibly combining "mustache" and "catastrophe"?
Caucnitive Dissonance & Beatlemania
Sunn m'Cheaux
#BlackMastodon #History #Portmanteau #TheBeatles #Music #BlackMusic #Education #Linguistics #Language #Lesson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHCqIqf7n-A
Suggest: Heisenazifismus
Portmanteau of Heisenberg (eponymous Uncertainty Principle) and Pazifismus (German for “pacifism”) — and of course sounds a bit like “He's a Nazi” which lends some of the contextually-necessary ambiguity
I support
keeping you on your toes
via portmanteaus.
#portmanteau
A: A wobelisk.
#dadjokes #portmanteau #groan
@tris calling the temporary #Lynn #CommuterRail station the 'Lynnterim'
is an abomination of a #portmanteau, and thus I'm all here for it. #MBTA
