Theo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?message-squaremessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up188arrow-down1message-squareWhat literary terms like 'palindrome' or 'semordnilap' are your favorite and why?Theo@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square42fedilinkfile-text
For me it is Mondegreen: which is a misheard lyric, word or phrase that becomes popular and gives it new meaning.
minus-squareClassy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up26·edit-23 days agoI enjoy “portmanteau”: the combination of two words to get a new meaning.“Brunch” Malapropisms are great, too. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious”
minus-squareBananaPeal@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoIf you like malapropisms, you’ll love Martha Plimpton’s character in Raising Hope, Virginia. Procrasturbate and vaginacologist are a couple favorites. Bonus: her middle name is Slims. Virginia Slims Chance
minus-squareSzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-23 days agoPart of what makes Klein’s Don’t Starve game so quirky and fun is the rampant use of creatures that are portmanteau’s of other creatures. Beefalo Deerclops Koalephant Catcoon
minus-squareTheo@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·3 days agoThat’s a new one. I didn’t know about malapropisms. There is a daily wordle style game I cannot think of what it is called for portmanteaus.
I enjoy “portmanteau”: the combination of two words to get a new meaning.“Brunch”
Malapropisms are great, too. “He hits from both sides of the plate. He’s amphibious”
If you like malapropisms, you’ll love Martha Plimpton’s character in Raising Hope, Virginia. Procrasturbate and vaginacologist are a couple favorites.
Bonus: her middle name is Slims. Virginia Slims Chance
Part of what makes Klein’s Don’t Starve game so quirky and fun is the rampant use of creatures that are portmanteau’s of other creatures.
Beefalo
Deerclops
Koalephant
Catcoon
That’s a new one. I didn’t know about malapropisms. There is a daily wordle style game I cannot think of what it is called for portmanteaus.