Meaning of univerbalism | Babel Free

Definitions

A protologism that provides a shorter way of saying something.

Examples

“Even the reduction of periodical names to this bare univerbalism, however, does not mean⟳ that the fundamental principles of poetics have⟳ been abandoned.”

“Colloquial speech typically exhibits a tendency towards brevity, many short or shortened expressions are used as a result⟳ of univerbalism (final exams > finals, high school > high, oral exams > orals, etc.), clipping (comfortable > comfy, spectacles > specs, pyjamas > jams, etc.) and acronyms (e.g. I’ve got a new CD. Send⟳ me an SMS. She’s a WASP. Let⟳ me know⟳ ASAP.).”

“Since 2007 the Center of the Creative Development of the Russian Language has chosen every year the Word of the Year. Since 2009 so-called netologisms have⟳ also been chosen -- new words about the internet (2009 guglik 'unit of measurement for the publicity of the internet', 2010 lybik (←ulybat'sja 'to smile⟳' for the Russian anglicism smajlik 'smiley'), and since 2010 the most original newly created univerbalism has been chosen (by the people in 2010 sderbank 'a bank that gains, pulls out/Russ. drat's kogo 'to pull⟳ out, to cheat'/ much money'; by the experts tandemagogija 'demagogy of the tandem', i.e. Medvedev and Putin).”

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