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... more a "phonetic blendword/portmanteau" [blog/argument] than an orthographic one [paradigm "chortle"]
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If I may paraphrase Eeyore, you mean that this tripeat thing was something US sportscasters knew? And here I was so sure that my student was a linguistic genius despite all appearances! 
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Didn't a basketball coach try to patent or copyright or trademark the word "threepeat"?
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Didn't a basketball coach try to patent or copyright or trademark the word "threepeat"?
As I am trying to patent "nuts?"
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you guys been smoking your Mary Janes?
formerly known as etaoin...
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Sometimes people copyright or trademark the words they coin. Legendary basketball coach Pay Riley, for instance, owns the rights to the term �threepeat.� In 1988 Riley was coach of the Los Angeles Lakers, who had just won their second championship in a row. Riley and Laker guard Byron Scott were sitting around a swimming pool in Hawaii trying to formulate a catchy phrase that would motivate the Lakers to win another championship in 1989. The phrase they came up with was �threepeat,� and Riley immediately trademarked it Socrates
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Being an NBA fan and a logomaniac, that's an interesting fact. My two greatest passions coming together... basketball and words.. woah, I kinda feel turned on...
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May I go on record as saying that any post captioned "Father Steve was right" is okay in my book?
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I believe "blogument" would be a blend word or portmanteau
This is true. Of course my post was more of an editorial comment on the direction the thread was going rather than a submission of a genuine neologism.
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