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1. The Meaning of the Base Words and the
English Blends in the HighEnd Teen E-Magazine 2016 Editions
According to Danks 2003, “a blend occurs when two or possibly more elements “blend” together, so that at the points of fusion something is either lost
from at least one source element, or shared by both.” The research results proved that a blend consisted of at least two different base words in which one of them
was shortened or there was an overlap at the point of fusion. The meaning of the blend was often the combination of the base words.
The first blend was advertorial. According to the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 8
th
Edition, advertorial meant an advertisement that was designed to look like an article in the newspaper or magazine in which it appeared
Hornby, 2010. It was composed of the word advertisement, which meant a notice or announcement in a public medium promoting a product, service, event,
or publicizing a job, and the word editorial, which meant a newspaper article expressing the editor’s opinion on a topical issue.
The word bit meant a unit of information expressed as either a 0 or 1 in binary digit. It was a blend of binary and digit. In the Oxford Advanced Learner’s
Dictionary 8
th
Edition 2010, binary meant using only 0 and 1 as a system of numbers and digit meant any of the numerals from 0 to 9, especially when
forming part of a number. Vlogs was a blend of video and blog. According to the Oxford Online
Dictionary or https:en.oxforddictionaries.com 2017, vlog was a personal website or social media account, such as a blog, where a person regularly posted
40 short videos. The meaning itself was the combination of the meaning of video and
blog. The origin of the word Instamatic came from instant and automatic. The
word instant meant happening or coming immediately and automatic gave meaning working by itself with little or no direct human control. From those two
words, the word Instamatic became a brand name for a pocket-size, fixed-focus, and snapshot camera.
Internet was used worldwide nowadays. This term was a blend of internationalinterchanged and network. From those two base words, the word
internet meant a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using
standardized communication protocols. Brunch was a quite popular blend among others. It was the blend of
breakfast and lunch. It was used to express a late morning meal eaten instead of
breakfast and lunch. Another blend was rockabilly. In the Oxford Online Dictionaries or https:en.oxforddictionaries.com 2017, this word meant a type
of popular music, originating in the south-eastern US in the 1950s, combining elements of rock and roll and country music. Therefore, this word was the blend
of rock and roll and hillbilly. Hillbilly was the old-fashioned term for country music.
Collins Online Dictionary or https:www.collinsdictionary.com 2017 stated that splurge was the blend of splash and surge. Splurge meant to indulge
oneself in some luxury or pleasure or it could mean to show off. In the dictionary, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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powerful forward or upward movement In the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 8
th
Edition 2010, mock meant to laugh at somebody or something in an unkind way, especially by
copying what they say or do, while documentary could be a film or radio or television program giving facts about something. Those two words were coined
and it made a new word mockumentary. This word meant a television program or film which took the form of a serious documentary in order to satirize its subject
Oxford Online Dictionary, 2017. Netizen was a blend of internet and citizen. This term was frequently used
to call a user of the internet, especially a habitual or keen one. The next blend was staycation from the word stay and vacation. The meaning of staycation was a
holiday spent in one’s home country rather than abroad, or one spent at home and involving day trips to local attractions. Basically, the meaning of this word was
the meaning combination from the word stay and vacation. Stay meant remain in the same place and vacation meant a holiday.
Cosplay was a blend of costume and play. Costume was a set of clothes worn by an actor or performer for a particular role. Play was an activity engaged
in for enjoyment and recreation. As the result, cosplay meant the practice of dressing up as a character from a film, book, or video game, especially one from
the Japanese genres of manga or anime. In the Oxford Online Dictionaries 2017, athleisure was casual,
comfortable clothing designed to be suitable both for exercise and everyday wear. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
42 This word was the blend of athletic and leisure. Athletic was relating to athletes or
athletics and leisure related to free time or convenience. Docuseries was a blend of documentary and series. Those two words were coined and made a new word
docuseries which meant television series that followed a particular person or group of people and their involvement in real events and situations over a period
of time. In addition, glamping was a blend of glamorous and camping. The
meaning of glamping was a form of camping involving accommodation and facilities more luxurious than those associated with traditional camping. If vlog
was a blend of video and blog, vlogger was a blend of video and blogger. This term was for someone who contributed in making a vlog.
The origin of the word clasp was not stated clearly in the dictionary. However, in Dictionary.com or http:www.dictionary.com, which was one of the
digital dictionaries, stated that clasp was a blend of clip and hasp. Clasp meant to grasp something tightly or to hold someone tightly. Clip meant to grip tightly,
while hasp also meant to fasten. The meaning of the word stash was a place in which something was stored secretly. It was a blend of stow, which meant to put
in a place or receptacle, as for storage or reserve, and cache meant a hiding place or anything so hidden.
Sitcom was made from the initial parts of the two words situation and comedy. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 8
th
Edition 2010 described sitcom as a regular program on television that showed the same characters in
43 different amusing situations. The word daycation was a blend of day and
vacation. This blend had the meaning a day trip or one-day vacation. Workaholic was a blend of work and alcoholic. This word meant a person
who compulsively
worked excessively
hard and
long hours.
Meanwhile, edutainment was a blend of education and entertainment. It meant computer games, television programs, or other material intended to be both
educational and enjoyable. The word oxide was a blend of oxygene oxygen and acide acid. In the
Oxford Online Dictionary 2017, the meaning of oxide was a binary compound of oxygen with another element or group. Filmography was a collection of writings
about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific time. It was a blend of film and bibliography. The word film related with motion pictures and
bibliography related with a complete or selective list of works compiled upon some common principle, as authorship, subject, place of publication, time, etc.
In the HighEnd Teen e-magazine 2016 editions, the researcher found some new English blends. The meaning of the blend was not clearly stated in the
dictionary, but the meaning of the base words could be obtained from the dictionary.
Teenspiration was a blend of teen and inspiration. It was a kind of new English words which it was still not available in the dictionary. However, in the
Oxford Online Dictionary 2017, the word teen related to teenagers while inspiration meant a sudden brilliant or timely idea. The next new blend in English
was hermesistible. Even though it had not been stated in the dictionary, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
44 hermersistible was a new blend of Hermes and irresistible. The meaning of this
word was stated in the HighEnd Teen e-magazine January edition p. 40. This new blend described the irresistible side of Hermes. Irresistible meant too
attractive and tempting to be resisted. Bloomingle was also not stated in the dictionary. It was a blend of bloom and mingle.
The term artpreneur was not stated in the dictionary. However, this term was possibly the blend of art and entrepreneur. In the Oxford Online Dictionary
2017, art related to creative activity resulting in the production of paintings, drawings, or sculpture. An entrepreneur was a person who set up a business or
businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit. This blend was similar with the blend creativepreneur. It consisted of two different words, which were
creative and entrepreneur. Creative was relating to good imagination or original ideas. Entrepreneur meant a person who organized and operated a business or
businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so. When those two meanings were combined, the word creativepreneur meant a person
who had good imagination and original ideas in developing a business or business and would give the best to achieve the high standard.
Sensociety was a new term for the communities under the brand Sensodyne. This term was the blend of Sensodyne and society. Sensodyne is a
brand of toothpaste. Even though the word Sensodyne could not be found in the dictionary, but the word society meant an organization or club which was formed
for a particular purpose or activity. Another new blend was youniverse. It was composed of you and universe. In this case, the word you represented women and
45 in the dictionary universe meant all existing matter and space considered as a
whole. In the HighEnd Teen e-magazine December edition on page 66, “Youniverse - Wardah’s Trend to Seek ..., together with Wardah they aspire to
inspire every woman to find their beauty and bring goodness and changes to the environment and the universe.” From those words, it could be concluded that the
meaning of Youniverse was the women’s beauty and goodness that could change the universe to be the better one. The last blend was Brangelina. It was the
combination of two names of Hollywood celebrities, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie.
2. The Types and the Formation of the English Blends in the HighEnd
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