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Why the name "Slurl"?

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Why the name "Slurl"?

Postby Chief Slurler » February 23rd, 2006, 2:00 pm

"Slurl" is a portmanteau word.

A portmanteau is a blend of two (or more) words. The term was invented by Humpty Dumpty, whose other achievements were being an egg-man and falling off a wall. So really his biggest talent was in word-mongering, and that should be the basis of his celebrity today, not his headline-grabbing clumsiness.

Anyway, those two words are:

  • Slur - to garble or run words together.
  • URL - which is short for Uniform Resource Locator. No, not a way to find a French Maid's outfit but the techie term for a web address.

So there you have it, a Slurl is a garbled web address.

* Seriously though, the term "portmanteau" was devised by Humpty - it first appeared in Lewis Carroll's book Through the Looking-Glass, in which Mr Dumpty explains to Alice the origin of two portmanteau words in the poem Jabberwocky: slithy and mimsy.
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Re: Why the name "Slurl"?

Postby Phoenix59 » July 24th, 2009, 2:19 pm

I feel the need to point out that URLs which direct users to locations within the virtual world of Second Life are referred to as SLURLs and have been since 2004.

http://slurl.com/about.php

Thanks,

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