Libfix postings
*postings on libfixes
☛ 1/23/10: Libfixes:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2010/01/23/libfixes/]
[on] the “liberation” of parts of words [like –tard, –flation, and –naut], to yield word-forming elements that are semantically like the elements of compounds but are affix-like in that they are typically bound.
… Quinion’s “combining forms” include both liberated elements and elements from complex learnèd forms, as in thermometer. It would be nice to have a term for the liberated elements that is both more memorable than “combining forms” and also signals the origin of these elements in the reanalysis of existing words (whether the source words are ordinary words, as with –tacular, or portmanteaus, as with –dar). I suggest libfix
☛ 5/5/11: idiocracy:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/05/05/idiocracy/]
–ocracy
☛ 5/28/22: Dishes:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/05/28/dishes/]
on “categories of artefacts in the domain of food preparation and consumption — categories with Xware names” (quoting earlier Language Log posting on “commercial categories” in the domain of the preparation and serving of food
☛ 6/11/11: Inventory of libfix postings:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/06/11/inventory-of-libfix-postings/]
organized by libfix, rather than by date
☛ 6/21/11: More libfix inventory:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/06/21/more-libfix-inventory/]
☛ 9/2/11: A little libfixfest:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/09/02/a-little-libfixfest/]
☛ 12/18/11: Latkepalooza:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2011/12/18/latkepalooza/]
–palooza
☛ 9/20/12: mooch(er)- words
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/09/20/moocher-words/]
mooch(er) + –ocracy, –palooza, –mania, –ville; in comments, –gate and –land
☛ 11/29/12: Libfix tech disasters
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2012/11/29/libfix-tech-disasters/]
the disaster libfixes: -(po)calypse, -(ma)geddon
☛ 1/14/13: The news for libfixes
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2013/01/14/the-news-for-libfixes/]
more on disaster libfixes
☛ Neal Whitman in The Week, 9/17/13: A linguistic tour of the best libfixes, from –ana to –zilla:
[http://theweek.com/articles/460279/linguistic-tour-best-libfixes-from-ana-zilla]
☛ 1/20/15 Once -tastic, now -astic:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/01/20/once-tastic-now-astic/]
inventory of –tastic examples
☛ 4/17/15: Annals of (possible) libfixes: -abelia:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/04/17/annals-of-possible-libfixes-abelia/]
compare -(i)ana
☛ 5/22/15: A panderthon:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/22/a-panderthon/]
-(a)thon
☛ 5/26/15: -(a)ganza:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/05/26/aganza/]
☛ 6/20/15: -valanche:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2015/06/20/valanche/]
☛ 3/14/16: Ignorance:
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/14/ignorance/]
political -mentum
☛ 3/22/16: Annals of naming (and lexical semantics and libfixes):
[http://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/03/22/annals-of-naming-and-lexical-semantics-and-libfixes/]
N stem plus libfix -nap ‘to steal (sth.) for the purpose of obtaining ransom’
☛ 4/9/16: Zip-O-Rama:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/09/zip-o-rama/]
-orama and its variants
☛ 4/19/16: Think of the Xs:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/04/19/think-of-the-xs/]
Catmageddon
☛ 11/20/16: Early libfixology:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2016/11/20/briefly-early-libfixology/]
two American Speech mentions in the 1940s
☛ 1/5/17: The carniguin:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/01/05/the-carniguin/]
-ocalpypse as a variant of -pocalypse
☛ 3/1/17: stans:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/01/stans/]
the libfix -(i/y)stan
☛ 3/2/15: New Yorkistan:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/03/02/new-yorkistan/]
☛ 8/5/17: The clean-gasm:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/05/the-clean-gasm/]
the playful libfix –gasm
☛ 8/14/17: Two European estates in America:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/14/two-european-estates-in-america/]
Pollinator Palooza
☛ 8/15/17: More Zippy-O-Rama:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/08/15/more-zippy-o-rama/]
the playful libfix –orama
☛ 11/17/17: Singing in parts:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2017/11/17/singing-in-parts/]
the animated film Logorama
☛ 1/30/18: Zippy returns to Cranston RI:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/01/30/zippy-returns-to-cranston-ri/]
Wein-O-Rama
☛ 2/1/18: The penguins are coming, the penguins are coming:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/02/01/the-penguins-are-coming-the-penguins-are-coming/]
penguinocalypse
☛ 3/30/18: Deviant Passover rites:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/03/30/deviant-passover-rites/]
Sederlicious
☛ 4/27/18: The shateria:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/04/27/the-shateria/]
washateria ‘laundromat’
☛ 5/22/18: brotastic:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/05/22/brotastic/]
–tastic
☛ 10/17/18: PUMP!ing it up:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/10/17/pumping-it-up/]
–sicle
☛ 12/22/18: Santa Jaws
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2018/12/22/santa-jaws/]
Snowmageddon, Icetastrophe
☛ 2/21/19: For gay penguins, science, and Canada!:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/02/21/for-gay-penguins-science-and-canada/]
–tard of retard, libtard
☛ 4/10/19: Crunching the festive rabbits:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/04/10/crunching-the-festive-rabbits/]
Dinopocalypse, Godzillapocalypse
☛ 9/6/19: The news from Nadoland:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2019/09/06/the-news-from-nadoland/]
–nado from Sharknado, in dumbnado (and more)
☛ 1/3/20: The penguinocalypse:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/01/03/the-penguinocalypse/]
☛ 7/19/20: Zipfixation:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2020/07/19/zipfixation/]
–orama words
☛ 5/26/21: Grandma Rose knows:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/05/26/grandma-rose-knows/]
graydar
☛ 7/7/21: Lounge shorts:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/07/07/lounge-shorts/]
on “the profusion of apparel types with semi-technical commercial labels in –wear (alluding to the function of the garments)”
☛ 8/26/21: Pretty in neon pink:
[https://arnoldzwicky.org/2021/08/26/pretty-in-neon-pink/]
partywear; –wear and –ware words
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