ACRONYMS on LSD

[AH]

you are too shears!  i am just too tired to debate any further.

[Mr Shears]

Especially about something as ambiguous as acronyms/abbreviations.

We must be very bored. 

[Mr Shears]

I'm a paralegal student.  I read 35 page opinions from 1877 for a living.  Or wait.  I pay them to let me do that...why?

Can't wait till law school when I can pay them to let me do six times the work. Woo!

[Mr Shears]

I don't trust Wikipedia for most things beyond stuff like this.  It's user written and edited.  You never know who is going on these things and writing false information.  I searched copyright law on there once for fun, and it was horribly incorrect about a number of things.

[Mr Shears]

Yeah.  Like I said, beyond stuff like this, I don't find it too reliable.  But, why someone would lie in an article about (what is it called?) "leet" is beyond me.  And even if they did, who cares?

[The Eric Clipperton]

motel (for motorist hotel) is a blend.

I think motel qualifies as a portmanteau...?
Or maybe not.

[Mr Shears]

...a wha?   

[The Eric Clipperton]

M-W (sorry, i ain't about to pay for the OED) sez:

Main Entry: 1port·man·teau
Pronunciation: pOrt-'man-(")tO, port-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -teaus or port·man·teaux  /-(")tOz/
Etymology: Middle French portemanteau, from porter to carry + manteau mantle, from Latin mantellum -- more at PORT
1 : a large suitcase
2 : a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms (as smog from smoke and fog)

[Mr Shears]

Learn somethin new everyday.

[rhombot]

M-W (sorry, i ain't about to pay for the OED) sez:

Main Entry: 1port·man·teau
Pronunciation: pOrt-'man-(")tO, port-
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -teaus or port·man·teaux  /-(")tOz/
Etymology: Middle French portemanteau, from porter to carry + manteau mantle, from Latin mantellum -- more at PORT
1 : a large suitcase
2 : a word or morpheme whose form and meaning are derived from a blending of two or more distinct forms (as smog from smoke and fog)

hmm... the way i was taught it, portmanteau involves a blending of meanings, not of forms. so the hebrew suffix "-ot", which marks both feminine and plural and can't be broken down into one part that means "feminine" and another that means "plural", is a portmanteau suffix.