{"id":510,"date":"2018-02-07T18:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2019-08-29T13:36:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-29T13:36:21","slug":"libfix-report-february-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/libfix-report-february-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Libfix report for February 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>While\u00a0<em>-splain<\/em> (and\u00a0<em>-splainer,\u00a0<\/em><em>-splaining<\/em>) clearly have potential, they hadn&#8217;t, as far as I could tell, gotten much beyond\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mansplaining\">mansplain<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>and occasionally, <em>womansplain<\/em>. But I changed my mind once I saw a podcast episode entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/chapo-trap-house\/episode-112-orbsplainer-feat-david-cross-52517\">Orbsplainer<\/a>&#8220;, about, well, the orb, you remember the orb, right? How could you forget the Orb? The Orb forbids it! Anyways, looks like a libfix to me.<\/li>\n<li>Constantine Lignos draws my attention to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/-tainment\"><em>-tainment,\u00a0<\/em><\/a>a term which refers to media (particularly video and video games) which entertains in addition while doing something else. The locus classicus is the &#8217;90s term\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Educational_entertainment\"><em>edutainment<\/em><\/a>, which looks much more like a blend than a libfix, as does\u00a0<em>infotainment,<\/em>\u00a0<em>politainment<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>psychotainment<\/em>. But but\u00a0<em>pornotainment<\/em> suggests this is on its way to affix liberation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0-splain (and\u00a0-splainer,\u00a0-splaining) clearly have potential, they hadn&#8217;t, as far as I could tell, gotten much beyond\u00a0mansplain\u00a0and occasionally, womansplain. But I changed my mind once I saw a podcast episode entitled &#8220;Orbsplainer&#8220;, about, well, the orb, you remember the orb, right? How could you forget the Orb? The Orb forbids it! Anyways, looks like a libfix &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/libfix-report-february-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Libfix report for February 2018&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-libfixes","category-phonology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}