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what is the purpose of this? A portmanteau stuffs meanings into it creating a new meaning, to do this the meanings must have something that the brain can find complementary. I think a portmanteau of everything meaning is essentially meaningless. And as such, a worthless piece of baggage.

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It's a self made problem that was solved in an interesting way. Of course noone is going to use a portmanteau of every word ever, but if everything was done out of pure utility everything would be a bit stale...no?

Yep it’s not without use: it’s potentially a good source of prog-ish album titles.

It’s art and there’s a lot that’s interesting in the technique.

As Oscar Wilde said, "All art is useless".

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