{"id":2405,"date":"2004-11-07T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2004-11-07T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/11\/07\/2405.html"},"modified":"2004-11-07T10:47:07","modified_gmt":"2004-11-07T18:47:07","slug":"contraction-action-wheres-your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/11\/07\/contraction-action-wheres-your\/","title":{"rendered":"Contraction action, where&#8217;s your traction?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here's what someone's morning might be like in a world in which the person who coined the term <span class=\"word-as-word\">blog<\/span> was in charge of naming other things as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I grab my fcase and I'm out the door.  I'm driving a loaner kup at the moment&#8212;the chback is in the shop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And so on.  You get the idea.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to go on to talk about such abbreviations as people referring to a Social Security number as a <span class=\"word-as-word\">social<\/span>, but then I discovered I'd discussed that before, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/journal\/show-entry.php?Entry_ID=615\">an entry from a couple years ago<\/a>, so I'll refrain.<\/p>\n<p>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 <span class=\"word-as-word\">cheeseburger<\/span> and <span class=\"word-as-word\">fishwich<\/span>; also the use of <span class=\"word-as-word\">-gate<\/span> (from <span class=\"word-as-word\">Watergate<\/span>, which didn't have anything to do with gates) to create names for scandals: Irangate, Monicagate, etc.  See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotten.com\/library\/language\/gate\/\">-Gate Suffix<\/a> page for more.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what someone&#8217;s morning might be like in a world in which the person who coined the term blog was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}