I think it's alright, simply because there are a lot of neologisms out there that are hybrid that are already widely accepted. It would be too much of a hassle to construct new "proper" ones to replace popular words... it just kind of irks me, though, when roots from different languages are mixed. I wish they weren't.

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In principle I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Though I think neologisms from a single language tend to sound more natural and... is there a word for when a word sounds like what it means? Like onomatopoeia but sounding like more abstract silent concepts rather than simply sounding like the sound it makes... if that made any sense...

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I don't think so. We're fully capable of developing descriptive words composed of our own languages (i.e., the term "Spanglish") which describe a concept not usually associated with said language or our culture. Trying to combine two or more words from other languages seems like more of an attempt to be "flashy" and "knowledgable" than some sort of attempt at expressing a legitimate idea. I can't say I know of any words that absolutely must use two different roots to make sense.

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yeah, I think it does sound better when all the roots are from one language. Although I guess the average person wouldn't even be aware of the clashes between roots...

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Yeah, I don't like it when new words are constructed just so people can be more circumlocutory or politically correct. Like in psych the other day... we had to learn about "arboreal dendrites." That really ground my gears. Arbor- being "tree" in Latin and dendr- being "tree" in Greek, the whole term just seemed to be unnecessarily repetitious, but in a class of like 150 supposedly intelligent people, nobody even made a peep about it. Except me, of course.

I MEAN COME ON!!! TREE-LIKE TREE-LIKE STRUCTURES???

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As opposed to equine dendrites. (:

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for instance, unibrow's been in our lexicon for a pretty long time right? But uni is from Latin and brow is from the Germanic languages. People don't even think about that nowadays, but the word's grown to be a perfectly good expression of the concept of not having a gap between your eyebrows.

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well.. that would make an interesting sight.. a horse-like tree-like structure? a tree shaped like a horse? a horse shaped like a tree? (poor horse)

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