I'm not going to give away my whole paper here, but one thing we know is that the language processing part of the brain is completely separate from the sound processing part of the brain. What we're dealing with here is language, and, well, English phonotactics.
Pinkberry is Rachel/Punkass!Pink-haired!Quin, as far as I can tell. I think one thing applicable to why some pairings get names and others don't is the fact that there seems to be a pretty consistent correlation that goes, if you have one FPN in a fandom you have more than one. Once the naming has begun, it seems unstoppable (and then you end up with things like the Harry Potter fandom where every possibly imagined pairing has its own name.) But to start the FPN process you need a critical mass of people who want a name or expect there to be one, and then you need someone to suggest it, and have be both accepted by a group of people, or rederived by enough people that it becomes 'natural'. Then newcomers just learn it as if its always been there, and then it's stuck.
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Date: 2012-03-19 12:40 pm (UTC)Pinkberry is Rachel/Punkass!Pink-haired!Quin, as far as I can tell.
I think one thing applicable to why some pairings get names and others don't is the fact that there seems to be a pretty consistent correlation that goes, if you have one FPN in a fandom you have more than one. Once the naming has begun, it seems unstoppable (and then you end up with things like the Harry Potter fandom where every possibly imagined pairing has its own name.)
But to start the FPN process you need a critical mass of people who want a name or expect there to be one, and then you need someone to suggest it, and have be both accepted by a group of people, or rederived by enough people that it becomes 'natural'. Then newcomers just learn it as if its always been there, and then it's stuck.