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Admittedly, this is how a lot of real words get formed, but for full [[Sci Fi]] (see what we did there!) credit, the combination should sound grating, unnatural, and futuristic. Also, when you create real words this way, you usually do it by combining roots which aren't complete words (at least in English) to begin with. Typically a noun and an adjective. (See [[Wikipedia:Portmanteau]].) |
Admittedly, this is how a lot of real words get formed, but for full [[Sci Fi]] (see what we did there!) credit, the combination should sound grating, unnatural, and futuristic. Also, when you create real words this way, you usually do it by combining roots which aren't complete words (at least in English) to begin with. Typically a noun and an adjective. (See [[Wikipedia:Portmanteau]].) |
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More often than not, the resulting word ends up with [[CamelCase|internal capitalization]] (sometimes called [[wikipedia:CamelCase|CamelCase]] or [http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/BiCapitalization.html BiCapitalization]). This has bled over to the real world, but is currently limited almost entirely to computer and Internet related phenomena |
More often than not, the resulting word ends up with [[CamelCase|internal capitalization]] (sometimes called [[wikipedia:CamelCase|CamelCase]] or [http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/BiCapitalization.html BiCapitalization]). This has bled over to the real world, but is currently limited almost entirely to computer and Internet related phenomena. |
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This convention is, of course, perfectly natural in languages where you make new words that way as a matter of course, such as German (but note that German doesn't use CamelCase) or Japanese (see [[Portmanteau Series Nickname]]). As evidenced by the popularity of terms like [[Blogosphere]] (or arguably [[Blog]], for that matter) and [[Podcast]], as well as the long list of [[Real Life]] examples below, this trope is definitely [[Truth in Television]] in English as well, though not to the point where the entire language is replaced by such words (yet). |
This convention is, of course, perfectly natural in languages where you make new words that way as a matter of course, such as German (but note that German doesn't use CamelCase) or Japanese (see [[Portmanteau Series Nickname]]). As evidenced by the popularity of terms like [[Blogosphere]] (or arguably [[Blog]], for that matter) and [[Podcast]], as well as the long list of [[Real Life]] examples below, this trope is definitely [[Truth in Television]] in English as well, though not to the point where the entire language is replaced by such words (yet). |
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