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OK, Father Snoop Dog.
That be Dogg with two g's, Home Skillet.
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a short slide down the slippery slope
You're using a logical fallacy to bolster your argument?
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Besides snizzle is already a word. It refers to those annoying sneezes that fizzle out halfway leaving you profoundly unsatisfied and twitching your nose like TV's Genie.
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"Smog" is a good example of a Frankenword.
Run away, run away: the word police is here. Smog, spork, and slithy are all perfectly good words. They've lived amongst us for years. Let's not turn them out because of the parentage.
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The problem with giving in to portmanteau words like "smog" is that it is a short slide down the slippery slope to...
I'm thinkin' it's being dragged up... like the beginning of a roller-coaster ride where *one has to be ratcheted up a chain.
Kind-of-a "what goes up must come down" thang.
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Me and Justice Scalia
Now you're trying to tempt me into another fallacy, some variety of ad hominem by association.
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Goethe one, TEd.
You owe me one keyboard, eta.
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Hard to take seriously with that name though
Ugh, don't get me started on these horrendous "new breed" names. Some of the other offenders I've heard:
Schnoodle = Schnauzer X Poodle
Cockapoo = Cocker Spaniel X Poodle
Yorkipoo = Yorkshire Terrier X Poodle
Goldendoodle = Golden Retriever X Poodle
We used to have a Labrador X Springer Spaniel (probably X a little something else), but we didn't call her a Labraniel, she was just a mutt.
Although I just thought, perhaps a German Shepherd X Springer Spaniel could be called a "Jerry Springer"?
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