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word creation
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Clipping Cartoons (It's Much More Fun Than Clipping Coupons)
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Clipping, back-formation, and affixing, that is. Clipping is a word creation process that takes a historically, multi-syllabic word and remo...
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Word Creation - Blimpworthy
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If you are wondering which sporting event to watch this weekend, you may want to take the blimpworthiness factor of the options into consid...
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
This is How They Verb Nouns
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Seems to me that verbing of nouns has become one of the more popular methods of word creation these days. In linguistics this is called a fu...
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Linguistics Cartoon Favorites - Facebook's Functional Shift
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