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A while back I ruefully observed that “-potamus” is not a productive morpheme in English, you can't just append it to any other word. For example, "burritopotamus" doesn't mean an especially large and overflowing burrito, it's just puzzling. And I've mentioned a couple of times [(1)] [(2)] that “franken-” can be used that way. And now I'm thinking about “frankenpotamus”, and it's terrifying. But if there can be “sharknado”…
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