For this assignment, I checked out the front page of The Independent Florida Alligator, and I
took some words from the article titled, “Gainesville begins hurricane
preparation”. The portmanteau I constructed is: hurration
Hurration: (noun) the action or process of hastily
completing a task from a nonchalant perspective
Basically this portmanteau can be used in the context of
doing something quickly in a careless manner. The action can also be defined as
“hurried preparation”.
In the two weeks I used this word around friends on campus,
it did not really catch on. I guess it sounds like an actual word, but it wasn’t
used by others I talked to after a few days. Some of my friends questioned the
word – they asked what it meant and why I was using a made-up word. Others didn’t
mind it. When I used the word to describe my morning routine one day, a friend
of mine was amused by it. She laughed a little and asked if that was a real
word. I responded sarcastically, saying that it could be, which led her to
Google it to find no definition.
No comments:
Post a Comment