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Originally Posted by Noego  I checked your link, BobK, but I got a:
"No documents match the query."
I then checked my dictionaries, no luck.
I then Googled it, but couldn't find any clear definitions.
So what does sloganry means?
Does it mean to quote without mentioning the source? |
That was my point, Noego. I was saying that if you quote your sources (as Fabimacieira didn't), then you don't have to explain 'yourself' if 'you' use words that aren't current and are almost certainly going to cause problems of comprehension.
Sloganry is a newly coined word (some observers would claim that it's not a word at all, but it's obviously 'out there' - there are a few hundred Google hits, though only a few dozen on UK pages), cobbled together from two sources:
slogan - a word derived from Gaelic roots, meaning (now) "distinctive word or phrase used by a political or other group" (
slogan - Online Etymology Dictionary )
-ry - a not very common suffix, indicating a (usually abstract) noun, as in
carpentry, citizenry, hosiery, Jewry, mimicry, penury. As this suffix was used to make words like the Latin
penuria, I imagine it's Indo-European. It seems to me silly to use it on a word ("slogan") first used in its current sense in the 18th century.
So "sloganry" is presumably meant to convey something like "the practice or policy or habit of using a particular kind of slogan, or slogans derived from a common source".
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