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The Spendid Splinter
Was a Hell of a Hitter!
A lexeme (/ˈlɛksiːm/ ⓘ) is a unit of lexical meaning that underlies a set of words that are related through inflection. It is a basic abstract unit of meaning,[1] a unit of morphological analysis in linguistics that roughly corresponds to a set of forms taken by a single root word. For example, in English, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, which can be represented as run.[note 1]
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In linguistics, a blend—sometimes known, perhaps more narrowly, as a blend word, lexical blend, portmanteau (/pɔːrtˈmæntoʊ/ ⓘ port-MAN-toh or /ˌpɔːr(t)mænˈtoʊ/ POR(T)-man-TOH; pl. portmanteaux), or portmanteau word—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.[1][2][3] English examples include smog, coined by blending smoke and fog,[2][4] as well as motel, from motor (motorist) and hotel.[5] The component word fragments within blends are called splinters.
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Some splinter skills, like those seen in Rainman, are so extraordinary that they are literally beyond the abilities of neurotypical people. These are also called "savant skills." But most splinter skills are not as impressive. An example might be the ability of an autistic child to recite the entire script of a TV show without understanding the words or to put together a complex jigsaw puzzle without understanding what the picture represents.
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In the movie Rainman, Dustin Hoffman portrayed an autistic man who is suddenly moved from an institution to the wide world. His brother, played by Tom Cruise, wants to take an airplane ride.
Dustin Hoffman's character refuses to fly any airline other than Qantas because he has memorized all the statistics of all the airline accidents that have ever occurred. Based on his knowledge, only Qantas has never had a crash. Thus, only Qantas is a safe airline to fly.
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James Gleick claims that the mondegreen is a distinctly modern phenomenon. Without the improved communication and language standardization brought about by radio, he believes there would have been no way to recognize and discuss this shared experience.
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(Mondegreen/apophonia)
In The Information, James Gleick writes that a mondegreen, a popular mishearing of a lyric or line of poetry, is a modern phenomenon. We've always heard and remembered lines incorrectly, but only thanks to "a modern level of linguistic self-consciousness and interconnectedness" can we recognize recurring, universal examples -- and the process is accelerating. "Like the printing press, the telegraph, and the telephone before it, the Internet is transforming the language simply by transmitting information differently," he writes. What happens when you add the rise of pop music and YouTube to the mix? You get the mother of all mondegreen mashups.
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Suffix. -er. (added to verbs) A person or thing that does an action indicated by the root verb; used to form an agent noun.
a noun denoting someone or something that performs the action of a verb, usually ending in -er or -or, e.g. worker, accelerator.
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Notes...I missed doing the #stradaeasel plein air challenge for January...aaand I thought to do my own daily grind, not painting, but trying to figure out my double word notion-touchtouch...it was linguistics I went to for these past January drill down search ups...as a matter of course, I do searches and riffs like these everyday, and for a long long time now, but I dont post all of them...first three or four years of blogging, I did everyday post something, and I want to do that some more, over in my blog...here on facebook, not so much!...but, I dunno, tomorrowmorrow I want to switch over to just drawing and painting, and continuing what I've found about compound words, reduplication, blends, and such!...inktober and strada challenges go on year long...anyway, for tonight, I wanted to do lexemes and splinters...I happened on these back in the first posts...splinters are like all the things going on inside a word...sp lin ter s...they cant stand on their own as a word...like tele for telescope, telephone, television is a splinter...last night, thinking of splinters, I wondered how far back in history tele has been around...it's lifted from Greek-tele/far...a splinter can be just a letter, like s, which makes plurals, or two letters, like er, which, well what does er do?...splint er..lett er...brbk...oh!...what is an agent noun???...bbk...lol...that IS my double words!...go figure...
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