May
28
Conjoinulations - The Art of Smooshing Words Together
Mon, 28/05/2007 - 12:16

Take parts of two words and join them together to make a new word.
These new 'words' can be used freely amongst loved-ones (who are quite likely the only people who are going to understand what you're trying to say anyway), for comic effect and to hear sounds put together in new and interesting ways, and sometimes to create a word which has a new, clever meaning, subtly changed by conjoinulating.
This is not new - companies have been known to use conjoinulations (although I'm guessing they called it something else). A fine example, which I noted today whilst buying milk down the Costcutter is "peperami" - it's a pepperoni salami.
London Underground uses it - the Bakerloo tube line is a fabulous conjoinulation formed by using parts of the names of the stations at either end - Baker Street and Waterloo.
The point is, be free with your language and economic with your syllables.