Dramastic

The latest European and English and Irish plays, not forgetting American, are played, both in English and in Japanese versions in which their fathers would hardly recognise their dramastic children.

A DRAMASTIC THING HAPPENED! Let me answer your first question right away. No the title is not a mistake, well... yes it was a mistake, but it's not anymore.

Kenneth Burke: ‘the dramastic pentad’ An example of such a technique is ‘the dramastic pentad’, another aspect of Kenneth Burke's theory.

“Las Vegas?” said Gert, shaking her tiny head. “This is all very dramastic.” “Dramastic?” said Bert. “That's not a word, Gert.” “Are you making up words again?” Bert asked. Gert smiled. “It should be. Dramatic plus drastic. Dramastic!”

It was an intense few minutes of basketball in a meaningful game, and Pippen said so after this game. Or at least I think he did. What he said was that the last five minutes of the game were “dramastic.” That's right. It's a combo word, putting together the word “dramatic” with the word “drastic.” Had it been intentional, it would have been genius. I don't think it was intentional. But “dramastic” should be a word.

In a large collection of more than 1,018 formations, Reischer (2008) finds that nouns are the most frequent output category of blends in English (almost 80 per cent, e.g. brunch, buffeteria, diagnonsense), followed by adjectives (11 per cent, e.g. bleen ◇ blue + green, dramastic ◇ dramatic + drastic, and verbs (4 per cent, guesstimate).

It's a bright and sunny Saturday just waiting for you to enjoy,” he said. “Everyone up; rise and shine. Breakfast is awaiting you in our beautiful and dramastically renovated dining hall. Is dramastic a word? Or did I just make that up?”