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Dinosaur awesomeness

(Link from Karen Davis) a Dinosaur Comics on modifier inflation over time and on portmanteaus (or portmanteaux):

Awesometastic looks like awesome with the libfix -tastic (though most of the -tastic examples have a noun as first element: carpet-tastic, scab-tastic, dicktastic, etc.). But then playful word formation is, well, inventive.

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3 Responses to “Dinosaur awesomeness”

  1. On the portmanteau watch « Arnold Zwicky's Blog Says:
    June 30, 2012 at 4:49 pm | Reply

    […] on this blog: dude-tastic (“dude-tastic portmanteau wordplay”, here); awesometastic here: Awesometastic looks like awesome with the libfix -tastic (though most of the -tastic examples […]

  2. Tyrannosaurian awesome sadness « Arnold Zwicky's Blog Says:
    August 30, 2012 at 3:42 pm | Reply

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    November 28, 2013 at 6:50 am | Reply

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