i was naked on the radio this morning.
i met my radio idols, and stood in front of them for almost an hour in my underwear trying to give them good radio. alas, i wasn't allowed to take anything else off. opie yelled and screamed, ant yelled, jim made jokes, but the production manager wouldn't give in. ah well. all in all it was a...
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That's not the case with "f'real." The morphemes are easily identifiable. Classic examples of blends include words like "smog" or "brunch."
Nor is it an affixation in any readily perceptible sense. Whether it's a clitic or just a phonological contraction of the separate preposition is really what the question is, but since fully distinct determiners count as proclitics in English I, personally, don't see why a preposition couldn't be.
The morphology at UW was nonexistent, though, and the syntax department was totally dominated by Chomskyans (I love the man's politics, but I hate his science), so I have to confess to being a little weak in the areas that would enable me to answer that definitively. But, as I say, I think you're right.