… or, “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Sniglet.”

I just think words should be used properly.
(The higher up(s) compelled me to display our confidential correspondence)

“Hey Nick, Check out this sentence from wikipedia:
A Velvet Elvis is a painting of Elvis Presley on velvet. It is sometimes known as a velvis [1], (the term Velvis was originally coined in 1984 by David Knechel as a sniglet).

I think the author of the obviously-tacked-on parenthetical statement was just trying to impress me, although he failed to link to the sniglet wiki properly. (He inserted it as a reference number instead of an activated word, sheesh.) Wouldn’t you say that “velvis” was actually a portmanteau and not a sniglet?

Sniglets are often, though not always, completely fabricated words, not just quirky contractions… It’s sort of a moot point on that wiki, but I don’t think that’s really correct wording. (Additionally, as much as I love parenthetical statements, I try to rewrite them on wikipedia sans those lovely curves since there are WAY too many of them boomeranging around. A guy could get hurt…)”