beatskruto.blogg.se - 100 examples of clipped words

affluenza (affluent + influenza) - belief that a person’s wealthy status causes lack of motivation and empathy.

Here are a few popular portmanteaus that you may see while skimming a news article or broadcast: It makes their content readable and engaging for an audience. The news media is another area that creates a lot of portmanteaus. Brangelina (Brad Pitt and Angelina Joe), Kimye (Kim Kardashian and Kanye West), and J-Rod (Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez) are all portmanteaus! In addition to the portmanteaus above, you’ll see many examples in celebrity couple names.

telethon (television + marathon) - continuous televised fundraiser.

sitcom (situation + comedy) - narrative comedy story based on a specific situation.

romcom (romance + comedy) - a comedy story that has elements of a romance.

prequel (previous + sequel) - sequel to a film or book that occurs earlier in the fictional timeline than its predecessor.

Pokémon (pocket + monsters) - popular Japanese animation about fictional creatures that battle each other.

newscast (news + broadcast) - television or radio show about current events.

mockumentary (mock + documentary) - a fictional story in the style of a documentary movie.

listicle (list + article) - article that features a list of items.

infomercial (information + commercial) - advertisement that relays information.

edutainment (education + entertainment) - entertainment meant to inform its viewers.

dramedy (drama + comedy) - a story that has both dramatic and comedic elements.

cosplay (costume + roleplay) - hobby in which people (roleplayers) dress up and act as fictional characters offstage.

biopic (biography + picture) - biographical movie about a real person’s life.

brony (bro/brother + My Little Pony) - male fandom of the My Little Pony series.

Bollywood (Bombay + Hollywood) - the Indian film industry.

Here are some portmanteau words that you may have read in an entertainment magazine: They abbreviate concepts for movies, television, and music to make them more appealing to an audience. If it's longer than a given length n, clip it to length n ( substr or slice) and add html entity … (…) to the clipped string.Lots of entertainment buzzwords are actually portmanteaus. Essentially, you check the length of the given string.