A thought about pornography
Okay, so we have pornographer for the person who makes porn, but pornography means both the whole, um, field as well as particular items of porn.
Why don't we say pornograph to mean a single item/instance of pornography? You know, like an epigraph being the object of study in epigraphy. You could say, "I purchased a very fine pornograph recently; would you like to see it?" or similar.
Come on! It would be fun! You know it would!
(I also have a tendency to use "pr0n" as the root morpheme for these things, and I have found myself saying "pr0nography" before. Anyway.)
Why don't we say pornograph to mean a single item/instance of pornography? You know, like an epigraph being the object of study in epigraphy. You could say, "I purchased a very fine pornograph recently; would you like to see it?" or similar.
Come on! It would be fun! You know it would!
(I also have a tendency to use "pr0n" as the root morpheme for these things, and I have found myself saying "pr0nography" before. Anyway.)