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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In Speculative Fiction, particularly 20 Minutes into the Future, when you invent something new, you create a name for it by slamming two existing words together. Hard. Letters in the middle are often killed in the process. Admittedly, this is how a lot of real words get formed, but for full SciFi (see what we did there!) credit, the combination should sound grating, unnatural, and futuristic. Also, when you create real words this way, you usually do it by combining roots which aren't complete words (at least in English) to begin with. Typically a noun and an adjective. (See Wikipedia:Portmanteau.) More often than not, the resulting word ends up with internal capitalization, aka CamelCase, or BiCapitalization. This has bled over to the real world, but is currently limited almost entirely to computer and Internet related phenomena. Naturally, it plays hell when trying to talk about them on this website. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })This convention is, of course, perfectly natural in languages where you make new words that way as a matter of course, such as German (but note that German doesn't use CamelCase) or Japanese (see Portmanteau Series Nickname). As evidenced by the popularity of terms like blogosphere (or arguably Blog, for that matter) and Podcast, as well as the long list of Real Life examples below, this trope is definitely Truth in Television in English as well, though not to the point where the entire language is replaced by such words (yet). See also Tropemanteau, Portmantitle, and Noun Verber. Compare with Newspeak. |
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Jasper Fforde of Thursday Next fame acknowledges that he loves using Wiki Words. | |
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Used to annoying effect in the short-story-turned-movie Overdrawn at the Memory Bank, which spoofed on Mystery Science Theater 3000. The use of words like "Ident", "Medico", and "FlavoFibes" quickly drives Servo up the WallStructSurface. | |
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Angel: This one is easily missed because you rarely hear the original in the show, but the evil law firm "Wolfram & Hart" counts under this trope as the company is named after the three founding demon members, each of them having the name of an animal; The Wolf, The Ram and The Hart. | |
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In Little King's Story, the king gets a "fanlet" from a peasant which reads: | |
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In The Simpsons, Homer asks Marge what to name his website. Her answer: "Compuglobalhypermeganet". | |
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Paranoia has a number of these, such as IntSec (Internal Security) and MemoMax (the process that transfers a dead citizen's memories to his next-of-clone). Paranoia has to have these — it draws on 1984 among other works. | |
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Snow Crash has some nice ones. "Loglo": the color produced by a cluster of illuminated logos (the precise shade tells you whether you're in a low-rent neighborhood with reds and yellows, or a more up-scale place with greens - think McDonald's vs. Starbucks.) "Franchulate" is a franchise operation that has extraterritoriality, like a consulate. And who could forget "The Deliverator"? | |
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In FTL Newsfeed the world's central bank is called CenBank, and 20th century 2-dimensional videos are called flatvids. | |
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Dave Barry Slept Here notes the tendency of banks to change their names to things like "InterContiBankAmeriTransWestSouthNorthCorp." | |
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Most of the main mecha in Yuusha-Oh GaoGaiGar. And its other forms and versions. And all of the Dragon Twins, and their combined forms. | |
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The first use of this trope is probably in 1984, where it was a facet of Newspeak —the shorter and more unnatural the word, the less chance you have to consider its implications. Orwell based this on words like Comintern and Gestapo used by the totalitarian regimes in the USSR and Nazi Germany respectively. It's just a normal way the new words are made in Russian or German, but the totalitarian implications do work. | |
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Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga has a fair number, both in use by the general population (holovid, wristcom, comconsole), and more specific to a particular region or derived from military contractions (ImpSec, ImpMil). Word of God says that the working title for A Civil Campaign was ImpWed. | |
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Neuromancer (and the other novels and short stories in the Sprawl Trilogy) have a bit of this with 'Simstim' and a few other things. Usually done without the CamelCase though. | |
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In Worldwar (besides the title), the Race's names for certain things fit the trope. For example, an admiral is called "fleetlord", while a ship captain is a "shiplord"; a tank is a "landcruiser", and a fighter jet is a "killercraft". | |
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In the future portrayed in Batman Beyond, "video game" has been shrunk into "vidgame". | |
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Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition briefly headed in this direction with its use of compound names for classes and monsters (most recently the Shardmind race and the Battlemind and Runepriest classes from PHB3), much to the annoyance of those who prefer simpler and more resonant naming conventions. The battlemind is known as a "fightbrain" on RPGnet. The runepriest existed in prior editions, and numerous other games such as Warhammer (though it was two words in 40k). |
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A very early episode of Dead Ringers skewered this one by having a Radio 4 newsreader declare that the proposed merger of Cunard and Aer Lingus had been abandoned. | |
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The MechWarrior mech simulator series, set in the BattleTech universe, uses many of the same Wiki Words. | |
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S. L. Viehl's Star Doc series is packed with words like this, starting right at the title. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason behind which words use CamelCase and which don't, but at least the series is consistent about each once a word is invented. One can probably blame the DraeneiExpys Jorenians, for the most part: They're not the only ones at fault, but they're the most egregious offenders. | |
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The world of Mass Effect has a few, like "medi-gel", "omni-gel", "eezo" and company names such as "ExoGeni" | |
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In Eureka Seven the most powerful LFO of the opposing faction is theEnd, which is officially spelt that way. | |
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Steins;Gate has a few of these. The Phone Microwave (Name subject to change) is a device which, as it can be guessed, is the offspring of a cellphone and a microwave oven; it has the peculiar property of being able to send e-mail messages to the past. Such E-mails are called D-mails. That's short for De Lorean mails; you can realize though that they're E-mails that go to the past after all, and D comes right before E. | |
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Tachyon: The Fringe has a Mega-Corp named GalSpan, which is short for the Galactic Spanning Corporation. Interesting in that the name reveals absolutely nothing about what they do. | |
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The Onion took the fashion of businesses to rebrand themselves with CamelCase abveviations to the logical extreme with its article "WaMu Files For ChapLev". note Washington Mutual files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy | |
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Aquanox, besides the title (from Gratuitous Latin for "water" and "night", respectively), has a Mega-Corp named EnTrOx, which stands for "Energy, Transportation, and Oxygen", describing their three main products and services. Of course, the game is quick to point out that no one would actually breathe oxygen that deep underwater, as it becomes toxic at this pressure. Instead, they provide a compound named Helium 17, which allows one to breathe normally at the bottom of the ocean without sounding like a chipmunk. Then again, EnTrHe doesn't quite have the same ring to it. The real life breathing gas mixtures Trimix (helium/nitrogen/oxygen) and Heliox (helium/oxygen only) are likewise examples of the trope. |
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Used to some extent in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos. The TechnoCore, the WorldWeb, and the AllThing being the most notable examples. | |
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RoboCop. The title itself is a WikiWord. Otherwise mostly averted in this series. | |
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Done liberally throughout BattleTech, including in the title, sometimes even in cases where the word is common or already exists in other Sci-Fi without Camel Case. Examples include, but are by no means limited to, FedCom (Federated Commonwealth - a personal union of the Federated Suns and Lyran Commonwealth), WarShip, ComStar (derived from Star League Communications Network), JumpShip, MechWarrior, DropShip, and BattleMech (in contrast to the also present IndustrialMechs). The Clans, although shunning contractions, have done this to other words, though they usually eschew the CamelCase used by most of the Inner Sphere. Quiaff? |
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In Andrey Livadniy's The History of the Galaxy, Space Navy titles are similar to modern-day ones but with the prefix "Galact" (e.g. GalactCaptain). Of course, they only use the prefix during formal introductions and afterwards tend to drop it. | |
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Everything in Max Headroom had a name like this: Blipvert, NeuroStim, GroBag, CredStick, etc. Blipvert and neurostim are words now, and Grobag is a brand of infant sleepwear. They were on to something. | |
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TV Tropes itself is having this effect, with more readers and editors of the site casually referencing trope names InCamelCase, which in literary (pop culture) discussions are incredibly more recognized as TV Tropes terms. TV Tropes variations of trope names are also becoming more recognizable: After reading a lot of TV Tropes, what sounds more natural — the traditional literary term Bathos, or Narm? | |
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Or pretty much any agglutinative language - that's how new words are lexicalized in the first place in these tongues and it's perfectly normal (at least it wouldn't seem "Sci-Fi"). Kinda how some languages are said to have millions of words for "snow" that turn out to be "adjective" + "snow" stuck together. | |
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Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake has plenty of respelled WikiWords for just about everything: Corporations (AnooYoo), products (Happicuppa), new animals (pigoons, rakunks), and the CorpSeCorps (Corporation security). | |
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Scott Westerfield's Uglies series has all sorts of freeze-dried foods and such with WikiWord names. | |
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Parodied in the film Demolition Man, where "murder" has evolved to "MurderDeathKill". | |
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Mocked in Stargate Atlantis, when Rodney dubs the craft that would become known as a Puddle Jumper a "GateShip", and is instantly told, "Okay, you don't get to name things anymore." In an alternate timeline, McKay does get to name it GateShip, mainly to set up a 'GS-1' joke. Later they learn that the Asurans who built the ships did call them GateShips, which enthuses McKay, but is taken as another piece of evidence of their creative bankruptcy by everyone else. | |
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Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden: Save Vidcon? Yeah/Nah | |
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The Murderbot Diaries: Common in the setting, thanks in part to corporate lingo from its many NGO Superpowers. The titular artificial Cyborg is a SecUnit; most stations have computer-networked SecSystems and MedSystems; one exceptionally malevolent Mega-Corp is GreyCris; one major Space Station corporate hub is named TranRollinHyfa; and so on. | |
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Likewise: StarLot. LightRaider. WordRune. EdenAgain. DragonRaid. | |
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A skit by the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy group mocked Battlefield Earth's use of compound words. They presented Battlezone Planet. | |
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The military of the Earth Alliance in Babylon 5 is called EarthForce. The President's ship is called EarthForce One. There's also PsiCorps, EarthDome, and EarthGov. The Earth Alliance as a whole was fond of this. The EarthGov of the 28th century seems to have kept the tradition alive, with vaguely Orwellian terms like "goodfacts" (i.e. propaganda), as opposed to "realfacts." |
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Mega Man Legends and Mega Man Battle Network have been using the spelling "MegaMan" instead. This is an interesting compromise with the eternal misspelling "Megaman". More to the point, the BattleChips and other technological whatsits of the latter series had WikiWordnames too: HiCannon, AirShot, NoBeam, and PoisFace, for example. That last one is an abbreviation for Poison Face, by the way. Apparently we will still have filename length limits in the future also. | |
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