• the website Machinima.com got its name when the founder misspelled his original portmanteau of machine and cinema and liked the new version better?

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Neologism

• Ivan Bogorov, who published the first Bulgarian newspaper in 1846 in Leipzig, was also an ardent supporter of Bulgarian linguistic purism and was known for his often amusing neologisms?
• lumpenbourgeoisie, a neologism formed from lumpenproletariat and bourgeoisie, is used to describe colonial and neocolonial elites in Latin America?
• the Wallachian poet Ion Heliade Rădulescu (pictured) advocated a radical transformation of the Romanian language on the basis of Italian neologisms?
• while some Esperanto profanity consists of informal neologisms, much of it is generated from the fundamental vocabulary?