I guess this person doesn't own a TV, if they can't even abide by the word for ithttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1269317341957050370 …
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Or for that matter an automobile
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Replying to @chu_bacca
"Breakfast" ("break fast") and "luncheon" both go back to Old English don't they
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Technically a portmanteau involves pushing together parts of two words, otherwise it's just a compound. Anyway this dude is gonna be pissed about email.
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Yeah but his objection is specifically combining roots from different languages
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Which was a classic pedant's objection to new words for new technologies that mixed Latin and Greek so they wouldn't be confused for earlier concepts (automobile vs automaton, television vs telescope)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @chu_bacca
He must be livid about the word “homosexual”
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