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- May 2021
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doctorow.medium.com doctorow.medium.com
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social telephones — primarily emails and Twitter mentions
There's something lovely about the way he defines email and social media as "social telephones"
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- Oct 2020
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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agitprop (1930) (a portmanteau of "agitation" and "propaganda")
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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The word is a blend of back and acronym.
How is this not a portmanteau?
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github.com github.com
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Create HyperText with JavaScript
I assume that's where the name "HyperScript" came from? A portmanteau?
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www.merriam-webster.com www.merriam-webster.com
- Sep 2020
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icla2020b.jonreeve.com icla2020b.jonreeve.com
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through the window, to take his portmanteau
How close were Wilkie Collins and Lewis Carroll? If I'm not mistaken, Carroll originally used this phrase in Through the Looking Glass which was published around the same time as The Moonstone.
As Humpty Dumpty says, the portmanteau could be interpreted as "two meanings packed up into one word" . With Godfrey giving Cuff the keys to the portmanteau, it may allude to clues hidden in words with double meanings.
Either way, Carroll and Collins must've been on a lot of the good stuff.
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