# Is a monitor with a Post-It stuck to it a new object, or just two objects stuck together ?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 8, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-monitor-with-a-post-it-stuck-to-it-a-new-object-or-just-two-objects-stuck-together/662942 "2013-07-08T14:04:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chief\_Pedant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@Chief\_Pedant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chief_Pedant)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-monitor-with-a-post-it-stuck-to-it-a-new-object-or-just-two-objects-stuck-together/662942/21 "2013-07-09T12:36:18Z")

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> [@Fake\_Tales\_of\_San\_Francisco](#):
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> A portmanteau is used when the definitions of each morpheme can blend together to form a useful new concept. Do you ever find yourself in need of communicating the idea of a ‘moninote’?
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> Cars are one object, but they’re also many different objects ‘stuck together’. We don’t call them exhausteeringwheelindicatorchassisheadlightsetc.

Maybe the OP is German.  
Or Finnish.

Or just trying to start a buzz for a neologism he thought up all by hisself.

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**Author:** ![MrQwertyasd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@MrQwertyasd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrQwertyasd)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-monitor-with-a-post-it-stuck-to-it-a-new-object-or-just-two-objects-stuck-together/662942/22 "2013-07-09T22:30:19Z")

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@Little Nemo

Blimey!

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