Contraction action, where’s your traction?
Here's what someone's morning might be like in a world in which the person who coined the term blog was in charge of naming other things as well:
I wake to the sound of my kradio. The news chorperson calls on the therman, who says it's going to be cloudy with a chance of derstorms later. I switch over to a rap station; listening to phop really gets me moving in the morning.
After showering, I find some clean derwear and get dressed. There's some cold ftover coffee in the feepot, so I heat it in the crowave, while making urdough toast using the roven.
I grab my fcase and I'm out the door. I'm driving a loaner kup at the moment—the chback is in the shop.
And so on. You get the idea.
I was going to go on to talk about such abbreviations as people referring to a Social Security number as a social, but then I discovered I'd discussed that before, in an entry from a couple years ago, so I'll refrain.
Also perhaps related to all this is the way people form new compounds based on back-formating old ones. The most common examples are probably terms like cheeseburger and fishwich; also the use of -gate (from Watergate, which didn't have anything to do with gates) to create names for scandals: Irangate, Monicagate, etc. See the -Gate Suffix page for more.
