General Question
Can you invent a needed portmanteau?
Among other meanings, portmanteau refers to a new word coined from joining parts of other words or morphemes of those words, and their definitions. Well known examples include such everyday words as “avionics” from “Avi-ation and electr-Onics,” and the now familiar “bankster” from “bank-er and gang-ster.”
My candidate is “Comflusion” which is a “Com-plete” “Con-Flu-ence” of “confu-Sion,” something I often find myself in, and thus need a word for. Comflusion is both more efficient than saying “Chinese fire drill,” less ethnically insulting, more current (China’s fire drills are much more orderly these days as China drags itself into the league of 1st world nations}, and incredibly efficient speech (It means a place where all streams and happenings jointly come together in one place and time, resulting in absolute confusion.) which is a mouthful.
The challenge this question refers to is to come up with a new portmanteau that describes something we often need to talk about, but that cannot be said with any single word in the target language. All languages are open to use, but please keep the root words and the portmanteau they from in a single tongue, and if that tongue is other than English, let us know what language it’s using.
What’s your word-combo contribution, your portmanteau that’s needed because its meaning is commonly discussed and there’s no single word to capture it?
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