11.01.2009

terrestrial radio: ideas from morphology

backronym/initialism
portmanteau/combined words neologism (snowclones)
retronym ("B.C." also, retroactive continuity, retroactive nomenclature)
constrained writing
piphilology/cadeic
aptronym (lol lord brain. nominative determinism or 'iconicity')
dysphemism
calquing (vs. phono-semantic mapping)
linguistic siamese twins with and, or/nor (crash and burn, now or never. collocation)



ansible
monomyth (plot framework, timing)