Meaning Identification in English Blends
fans of the big balloons seen floating in the sky during Thanksgiving. Second, the blend Carmageddon car x Armageddon appeared on the Dallas News on
October 28, 2013. It said, When Los Angeles temporarily shut down I-405 in 2011 and 2012, warnings of Carmageddon proved inaccurate. Carmageddon
literally meant the battle of car, yet it was used to refer to a heavy traffic. Third, there was a blend of flexible and vegetarian flexitarian on the online news
http:www.thedailybeast.comnewsweek20080928part-time-vegetarians.html which said, “Advocates call it flexitarianism, but critics say being a little bit
vegetarian is like being a little bit pregnant”. Flexitarian meant a vegetarian who is flexible to combine meat to hisher meal. Fourth, a fictionalized TV docudrama
about Chinese artillery soldiers found on http:news.yahoo.comdigging-china- nuclear-tunnels-013008319.html. In that news, docudrama was created from
the blend of documentary and drama. Fifth, brogards brother x regards was found in a satirical article posted on November 14, 2013 on
http:www.policymic.comarticles73429snapchat-ceo-evan-spiegel-s-3-billion- rejection-letter-to-facebook-s-mark-zuckerberg. This blend was used in place of
regards as a complementary close to a letter. Besides, blends were also found in many advertisements. These five
examples describe the appearance of blends in this domain. First, a cosmetic product Macco created a tagline of its pro
duct “Macco, the cosmolission specialists” on October 2004. It used blend cosmolission which is originally
derived from two words cosmetic and collision. Second, it was also found as a feature of Burger King commercial with the tagline “Try eating our new
Croissandwich ” The blend combined croissant and sandwich to make a blend
croissandwich. A croissandwich is an innovation of pastry which forms a croissant sliced and made into a sandwich. Third, a pastry that became a trend
currently with the brandname Cronut was taken from the blend of croissant and donut. The term was originally coined by Chef Dominique Ansel on May 2013 to
refer his new pastry creation which looked like a donut but was made with croissant dough. Fourth, in 2001, Old Navy brandname launched a tagline Old
Navy Funnovations Inc.--where all the Old Navy Funnovations come from. It combined fun and innovation. Fifth, a pizza commercial in television introduced
the tagline Try our new Panormous Pizza. The blend panormous was a combination of pan associated with pizza and enormous.
As mentioned previously, mobile phones and internet services have revolutionized communication in the last decades, creating an innovative way of
communication through social media. Prior to social media, the communication device was made through Short Message Service SMS which limited the
characters into 160. Abbreviated languages found in SMS, for instances smore some x more and spime space x time, were intentionally used in order to make
the message as economical and practical as possible. Thus, abbreviated language became one of the strategies in the modern way of communication. As the number
of SMS users decreased, the number of users of other messaging services such as wassap, LINE, etc increased due to the practical and economic reasons.
Nevertheless, these services pertain the styles of communication like those of SMS which were economical and practical.
Other than messaging devices, social media services such as facebook, twitter, path, instagram, etc show an upward trend. Twitter, for instance, also