Sanarunojen taksonomiaa (tosikoille)

Tässä muuan luokitus sanarunoille (Figures of Pwoermds by Geof Huth):

assertion (the isolation of a single conventional word)

portmanteau (the blending of two words into one)

standard neologism (the creation of a new word, here assuming a process that employs the standard pieces of word-creation, the roots and affixes of the language)

apheresis (the elimination of a letter or letters from the beginning of a word)

syncope (the elimination of a letter or letters from the middle of a word)

apocope (the elimination of a letter or letters from the end of a word)

prosthesis (the addition of a letter or letters to the beginning of a word)

epenthesis (the addition of a letter or letters to the middle of a word)

proparalepsis (the addition of a letter or letters to the end of a word)

tmesis (the visual breaking, as with punctuation, of a word into two)

spontaneous neologism (an invented word that uses no roots or affixes of the writer's target language)

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Ja toinen, jossa Geof kommentoi Jonathan Jonesin laajan sanarunokokoelman the fullcrumb series: 1-20 (i-iv) sisällysluetteloa:

1. mnml: These are usually exceedingly brief pwoermds ("qt," "nv," "ub") often eschewing vowels altogether or surprising us by their blankness ("qqqqqs," "gh st").

2. t X t / e =: These are pwoermds that, except in a single instance ("psilence"), are interrupted by punctuation marks ("( )mit," "/lf&ha/," "certain'ty"), and "psilence" fits in here by being interrupted by a psilent p.

3. nulojism: These are erotic neologistic pwoermds ("cun't," "qwhim," "peniscope," "errhotic").

4. anatome: These focus on the human anatomy ("fingernai(," "twrysts," "phlegmish," the last possibly influenced by Jonathan's current venue on the planet).

5. signusingnosis: These turn their attention to the celestial and astronomical ("planitinerary," "vacuumulate," "astrognomic").

6. sphunky: Incredibly, these focus on punk music, particularly the Sex Pistols, and their are only three pwoermds in this booklet, so I'll give you only one ("sexpistles").

7. extinglish: These are pwoermds that significantly fragment, fracture, reduce, or modify regular English words ("chune," "qwert," "pugn").

8. newsense: These focus on the news media. Honest. I don't make these things up. Jonathan does ("noosepaper," "mediochre").

9. poeworms: These are concerned with the macabre and magical ("inksense," "vampyrrhic").

10. punishmeant: I think the theme of these is completely self-evident, given the title ("antagonostic").

11. cygn: The title of this is one of the most beautiful pwoermds I've ever seen (cutting back an infant swan into a sign), and these concern the art of writing, or of making cygns ("writualistic").

12. animadversions: Each of these pwoermds is based on a pun on a word for an animal ("obskua," "aukword"). These are a kind of light verse pwoermd.

13. mistheard: These pwoermds deal with verbo-visual punning of an almost unbearably powerful sort ("trwooth," "debtknowtation").

14. nounsense: Another set of punning pwoermds, mostly in pairs (such as "naive/&/folk").

15. or/th/or: Three pwoermds based on the names of famous writers ("shapesphere").

16. quotidiom: Six pwoermds punned against the days of the week (why only six?: "satyriesundies").

17. thread: Three pwoermds about knitting, written for his wife K. ("gnittink").

18. riversing: Pwoermds focused on all things achqueous, eyecy, and misterious (don't blame Jonathan for those three; here are his: "'r'a'i'n'i'n'g'," "dr,p," "eddyfying").

19. nodebook: It seems to me that these are focused on writing as in the act a writer does ("apoethesis," " expunential").

20/i. apendisease (i): Kinda sexual, in two sections, the first of those all beginning with f's and those of the second punned against the names of flowers. ("foreskim," "faunication," "twolips").

20/ii apendisease (ii): Two sets again, one about joining ("togather") and one about breaking into pieces ("crumbpl").

20/iii apendisease (iii): One set for chemistry ("penisillin") and one for industry ("manufracture").

20/iv apendisease (iv): Two words: the beginning and the end ("ab(((((((((())))))))))yz)" and the end (well, I can't give it all away).