{"id":5648,"date":"2010-06-01T05:00:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2010-06-01T05:00:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T10:00:42","slug":"is-it-cromulent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5648","title":{"rendered":"Is it Cromulent?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2010\/05\/30\/one_day_wonder\/\">One-day wonder<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A couple of weeks ago, an apparently totally made-up new word seemed to set the land-speed record for the jump from \u201cearly use\u201d to \u201cinclusion in a dictionary.\u201d On May 12, the word malamanteau showed up in the Web comic xkcd, where it was defined as \u201ca neologism for a portmanteau created by incorrectly combining a malapropism with a neologism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the clearest definition ever written, but the idea is that a malamanteau blends one or more not-quite-right words to create a completely new one. Examples include the classic <em>misunderestimated<\/em>, <em>bewilderness<\/em> (as in \u201clost in the bewilderness\u201d), and <em>insinuendos<\/em> (innuendo + insinuation)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think the author missed an opportunity by not asking the titular question.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/739\/\">xkcd: Malamanteau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One-day wonder A couple of weeks ago, an apparently totally made-up new word seemed to set the land-speed record for the jump from \u201cearly use\u201d to \u201cinclusion in a dictionary.\u201d On May 12, the word malamanteau showed up in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5648\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartoon","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}