Protext is paloin biloid's concrete and gadget poetry. Following is a
list of protext forms included in the The Protext Primer 1st Edition from
Protext Press™, which features examples of these forms as well.
acronymix – protext that accentuates an acronym or monogram to
create a secondary read to a word or phrase that may or may not be
common and may even be a neologism.
amplitoots – protext that uses symbols that indicate nonmathematical
addition or continuation, such as the ampersand and similar symbols,
the et cetera abbreviation, and ellipses…
anagrammar – protext that uses anagrams to create interesting
phrases or other pieces; subprose and subverse in their strictest
sense are anagrammar, but single line usage of anagrams is also
anagrammar.
artomix – protext that uses letters in connected bubbles, sometimes
representing the letter O, to simulate two-dimensional molecular
models.
breves – protext that relies on truncation or omission of letters in a
word to reveal a message within the word.
capitalistix – protext that utilizes capitalization to bring out added
meaning in a word, phrase, or passage.
chromantix – protext that uses coloration, often differential coloration,
to evoke new meaning in a word or phrase.
conjugateways – protext that forms neologisms by combining words
at a common syllable or other word part.
contract’rs – protext that relies on nonstandard use of the apostrophe
to indicate contraction.
currentsee – protext that uses symbols of currency in any economy as
replacements for letters in words or phrases.
deletr’x – protext that uses standard use of the apostrophe to indicate
contraction or possession but does so in nonstandard instances to
create a new word or phrase.
dupledupes – protext that uses words that show reduplication,
particularly the duplication of a syllable to create a single word.
emergems – protext that creates a new read of a word or phrase by
separating letter parts into different letters as if the original letters were
intended as compounds of the resulting letters.
envisiblink – protext that removes part of a letter to reveal another letter
visibly latent in the former letter, often in addition to the function of
another protext form such as subverse or subprose.
flapwords – protext that relies on fonts that allow for meaningful
reflections of a word or phrase along a vertical axis, a vertical mirror
image, backwards.
flipwords – protext that relies on fonts that allow for meaningful
reflections of a word or phrase along both a vertical and a horizontal
axis, a 180 spin to upsidedown and backwards.
flopwords – protext that relies on fonts that allow for meaningful
reflections of a word or phrase along a horizontal axis, a horizontal
mirror image, upsidedown.
idiomates – protext that utilizes or modifies idioms or adages.
logolalia – protext that alters trademarks or business names into
neologisms or neologistic phrases.
mathmagic – protext that uses the symbols of mathematics as word
elements and/or the conventions of mathematics in the layout of the
piece.
mographix – protext that plays off homographs, words that are spelled
the same but carry different meanings, especially when they are
pronounced differently too.
moleculart – protext that uses the conventions of chemical naming to
highlight a section of a word or phrase or less literally to create a
neologism.
mophonix – protext that plays off homophones, words that are spelled
differently but pronounced the same, especially when they have
different meanings.
morphix – protext that uses a standard font with added lines or
shading or a specialized font to enhance or transform the original word
or phrase.
myspellings – protext that utilizes misspelled words or phrases either
to add meaning or simply to allow for the function of another protext
form without strict adherence to correct spelling.
neop – protext that uses letters as simple graphic elements to create a
pattern or image that has little or nothing to do with the letters’
meaning, pronunciation, or history.
onomatix – protext that uses onomatopoeia to create neologisms.
oxylessons – protext that uses or modifies oxymorons or phrases that
can be made to appear to be oxymorons.
palindroids – protext that utilizes palindromes.
porkbells – protext that uses Pig Latin or other word games to create
particularly interesting results.
posses’sives – protext that employs standard or nonstandard usage
of the apostrophe to indicate possession, usually by creating a
neologism or new modification of an existing word or phrase.
prestidigits – protext that replaces strings of letters or syllables that
are the same as those in the names of numbers or the pronunciation
of numbers with those numbers or replaces letters that look like
numbers with the names of those numbers.
punctuapery – protext that uses punctuation as replacements for
letters in a word or phrase.
renumerals – protext that alternates between letters and numbers that
look similar or replaces letters with similar looking numbers or
replaces numbers with similar looking letters in a word or phrase.
repeatrix – protext that repeats a series of letters but with differing
breaks between words to create a series of words that do not
themselves repeat or only just a bit but in new phrases.
romanumerology – protext that highlights the letters of the Roman
numeral system within words or phrases to elicit additional meaning.
shorthandles – protext that uses symbols that combine letters and
other lines, whether from the conventions of shorthand, publishing, or
any other field, as part of a word or phrase to modify the word or
phrase.
subprops – protext that includes any element that isn’t yet recognized
as its own form of protext and so breaks the rules of protext as spelled
out here.
subprose – protext that descends or ascends from a root word or
phrase, title, one letter or space at a time, especially when done so in
repeated anagrams of the title, so that the poem is read vertically only.
subverse – protext that descends or ascends from a root word or
phrase, title, in words or multiple letters and/or spaces per line, so that
the poem is read line by line, downward or upward. (Although paloin
conceived of this term at the time of the creation of the subprose form,
endwar established subverse as this particular form.)
transposits – protext that employs the swapping of letters or other
word parts between words or phrases, including spoonerisms, or the
replacement of letters or word parts with others outside the original
word(s) or phrase(s) or the insertion of outside letters or word parts
into the original word(s) or phrase(s).
wordpools – protext that employs words connected at mutual letters in
various planar arrangements.
wordworlds – protext that places words on a page in such a way as to
evoke scenes, images, or some significance beyond a simple
collection of these words.
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