Today, when I looked at the title of yesterday’s post, “Futurepedia”, I realized that I had created a frankenword. “Frankenword” is, as many of you know, a modern colloquialism for a portmanteau — a new word formed from two or more existing words that have been mashed together.
And then I thought that maybe it might be cool to start a Wikipedia of frankenwords. That is, an on-line crowd-sourced encyclopedia devoted to words that are mash-ups of other words.
Of course part of the fun would come when contributors start to create their frankenwords, just so they can add them to the Frankepedia. Which would be just fine with me. The world needs more neologicians.
Then I started to think that what we really need is an on-line crowd sourced encyclopedia devoted to ideas that have been raised to their meta-level. Like the reasoning process in the previous paragraphs that took me from a “Futurepedia” to a “Frankepedia”.
We could call this a “Metapedia”. And I guess it would need to contain an entry on Metapedias.