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12 Really Forced Portmanteaux That Didn’t Catch On

Wait I love the word Scandiknavery

that should happen

Also prostisciutto, affluenza and mirthquake are gems.

mentalflossr:

Scandiknavery (deceit or trickery by Scandinavians)! Balloonatic (a person who is balloon-mad)! Saccharhinoceros (a lumbering person with an excessively effusive or affectedly sentimental manner)! Alcoholiday (leisure time spent drinking)!

For whatever reason, these words never caught on.

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jonathangarda: Gregory Crewdson takes a Hopper like approach to his overall ascetic but in a decidedly darker direction. His work has the longing and melancholy of a Hopper painting but without quite as much hope. What I think really draws me to his work besides the obvious Edward Hopper influence is Crewdson’s understatement of the highly dramatic.  jonathangarda: Gregory Crewdson takes a Hopper like approach to his overall ascetic but in a decidedly darker direction. His work has the longing and melancholy of a Hopper painting but without quite as much hope. What I think really draws me to his work besides the obvious Edward Hopper influence is Crewdson’s understatement of the highly dramatic.  jonathangarda: Gregory Crewdson takes a Hopper like approach to his overall ascetic but in a decidedly darker direction. His work has the longing and melancholy of a Hopper painting but without quite as much hope. What I think really draws me to his work besides the obvious Edward Hopper influence is Crewdson’s understatement of the highly dramatic.  jonathangarda: Gregory Crewdson takes a Hopper like approach to his overall ascetic but in a decidedly darker direction. His work has the longing and melancholy of a Hopper painting but without quite as much hope. What I think really draws me to his work besides the obvious Edward Hopper influence is Crewdson’s understatement of the highly dramatic. 

jonathangarda:

Gregory Crewdson takes a Hopper like approach to his overall ascetic but in a decidedly darker direction. His work has the longing and melancholy of a Hopper painting but without quite as much hope.

What I think really draws me to his work besides the obvious Edward Hopper influence is Crewdson’s understatement of the highly dramatic. 

# art

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