History Main / WeWillUseWikiwordsInTheFuture

* ''SteinsGate'' has a few of these. The Phone Microwave (Name subject to change) is a device which, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as it can be guessed]], is the offspring of a cellphone and a microwave oven; it has the peculiar property of being able to [[spoiler:send e-mail messages to the past]]. Such E-mails are called [[spoiler: D-mails. That's short for [[Film/BackToTheFuture De Lorean mails]]; you can realize though that they're E-mails that go to the past after all, and [[FridgeBrilliance D comes right before E]].]]

* Used to annoying effect in the short-story-turned-movie ''OverdrawnAtTheMemoryBank'', spoofed on ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''. The use of words like "Ident", "Medico", and "[=FlavoFibes=]" quickly drives Servo up the [=WallStructSurface=].

* ''DungeonsAndDragons'' 4th Edition is starting to head in this direction with its use of compound names for classes and monsters (most recently the Shardmind race and the Battlemind and Runepriest classes from PHB3), much to the annoyance of those who prefer simpler and more resonant naming conventions. The battlemind is known as a "fightbrain" on [=RPGnet=].

* A very early episode of ''[[Series.DeadRingers Dead Ringers]]'' skewered this one by having a [[TheBBC Radio 4]] newsreader declare that the proposed merger of Cunard and Aer Lingus had been abandoned.

* ''[=FedCom=]''. ''[=WarShip=]''. ''[=ComStar=]''. ''[=JumpShip=]''. ''[=MechWarrior=]''. ''[[DropShip DropShip]]''. ''[=BattleMech=]''. ''BattleTech''.

* The ''Videogame/MechWarrior'' [[HumongousMecha mech]] [[RealRobot simulator]] series, set in the ''BattleTech'' universe, uses many of the same Wiki Words.

* French gamers tend to concentrate the words "Jeux vidéos" into "Jivés" (From JV), also, Dessins Animés ("Cartoons") have usually called "Déhas" (DA) and Bandes Dessinées have been called "Bédés" since this tropper's father childhood. Except for BD/Bédés, most words are used only orally and never in any written forms outside message boards.

* The title characters of the satire ''Gayniggers From Outer Space''.

* {{Outkast}}'s debut album, ''Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik''. ''[=ATLiens=]'' might count too.

* {{Outkast}}'s debut album, ''Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik''.

* This is a favorite of many military organizations worldwide; with the US military being especially fond of this trope. When military-jargon coinages are not actual acronyms, they're typically this, freqently with the inter-capitalization as well. Some examples are "milspec" (military specification, used for equipment meets military standards), "[=OpHour=]" (Operational Hour, the time spent on an actual operation, exclusing support activities), "Elint" (Electronic Intelligence), and "medevac" (Medical Evacuation).

* In Japanese, forming words like this is perfectly normal. They are built from combinations of Japanese and [[GratuitousEnglish English]] words. For example, the Japanese word for "PC" is [[Anime/Chobits "paso-kon"]], an abbreviation of "personal computer" pronounced using standard Japanese phonemes. This extends even to names, especially of celebrities. Jimi Hendrix, for example, is something like [=JimiHen=].

* Mocked in ''StargateAtlantis'', when Rodney dubs the craft that would become known as a Puddle Jumper a "[=GateShip=]", and is instantly told, "Okay, you don't get to name things anymore." In an alternate timeline, [=McKay=] does get to name it [=GateShip=], mainly to set up a [='GS-1'=] joke. And the Asurans call them [=GateShips=].

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* The world of ''Franchise/MassEffect'' has a few, like "medi-gel", "omni-gel", "eezo" and company names such as "[=ExoGeni=]"

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* In Japanese, forming words like this is perfectly normal. They are built from combinations of Japanese and [[GratuitousEnglish English]] words. For example, the Japanese word for "PC" is "paso-kon", an abbreviation of "personal computer" pronounced using standard Japanese phonemes. This extends even to names, especially of celebrities. Jimi Hendrix, for example, is something like [=JimiHen=].

* The first use of this trope is probably in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', where it was a facet of Newspeak --the shorter and more unnatural the word, the less chance you have to consider its implications. Orwell based this on words like Comintern and Gestapo used by the totalitarian regimes in the USSR and Nazi Germany respectively. It's just a normal way the new words are made in Russian or German, but the totalitarian implications do work.

* The first use of this trope is probably in ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', where it was a facet of NewSpeak --the shorter and more unnatural the word, the less chance you have to consider its implications. Orwell based this on words like Comintern and Gestapo used by the totalitarian regimes in the USSR and Nazi Germany respectively. It's just a normal way the new words are made in Russian or German, but the totalitarian implications do work.

* The SpaceNavy of the [[TheAlliance Earth Alliance]] in ''Series/BabylonFive'' is called [=EarthForce=]. The [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent President]]'s ship is called ''[=EarthForce=] One''. There's also [[MutantDraftBoard PsiCorps]], [=EarthDome=], and [=EarthGov=]. The Earth Alliance as a whole was fond of this.

* The world of MassEffect has a few, like "medi-gel", "omni-gel", "eezo" and company names such as "[=ExoGeni=]"

* ''TheOnion'' took the fashion of businesses to rebrand themselves with CamelCase abveviations to the logical extreme with its article "[[http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/wamu_files_for_chaplev WaMu Files For ChapLev]]". [[hottip:*:Washington Mutual files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy]]

* The publishing company [[http://www.randomhouse.com/ Random House]] occasionally uses the form [=RandomHouse=]. Likewise, [[http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx HarperCollins]] is one word.[[hottip:* :Formed from the merger of William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. and Harper & Row; Harper & Row was itself formed from the merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company.]] Could be worse; they used to be [=HarperCollins=]''Publishers'' (yes, the italics are part of it).
* Indeed, many companies formed by mergers now have names that look like multiple rear-end pileups of words. [=ExxonMobil=] and [=GlaxoSmithKline=][[hottip:* :Glaxo Wellcome + [=SmithKline=] Beecham]] to name but two. To the extent that people have now started doing it with names that ''aren't'' in [=CamelCase=], just because they expect it. Eurostar being written as [=EuroStar=] is one that is used in everyday life a lot.

* The world of MassEffect has a few, like "medi-gel", "omni-gel", "eezo" and company names such as "ExoGeni"

* French gamers tend to concentrate the words "Jeux vidéos" into "Jivés" (From JV), also, Dessins Animés ("Cartoons") have usually called "Déhas" (DA) and Bandes Dessinées have been called "Bédés" since this tropper's father childhood. Unless BD/Bédés most words are used only in oral and never in any written forms outside message boards.