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DEFINITION: To unconsciously adopt the vocal mannerisms and linguistic stylings of the people with whom you are speaking.
Verboticisms
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Assimilocution
Created by: VersaVice
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "We are the Borg. You will be assimilocuted. Now we sound the same. Resistance is futile. We are the Borg."
Etymology: assimilate + locution
Convertsation
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: like conversation, but with a t in it
Sentence: Callum often found himself convertsing when he tried to help lost tourists. It was embarrassing the way he spoke his own language with all the linguistic stylings of tongues he did not even know.
Etymology: convert + conversation
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COMMENTS:
A great collocalism for Verbotsnia! - purpleartichokes, 2007-09-12: 04:48:00
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Marinarration
Created by: phonematode
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: marinate + narration
Articulape
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: are/ti/ku/lape
Sentence: It didn't take long for her to articulape the preschool children she was teaching. The whining and foot stamping was a bit over the top though.
Etymology: articulate + ape (mimic)
Leeschpik
Created by: h4ste
Pronunciation: leech - speek
Sentence: 4 months was all it took for you to leeschpik us Australians, good on ya mate!
Etymology: leech + speak
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COMMENTS:
Bloody oath! ( I hope Google's right and that means "too true") I was trying to pick up on your leech reference - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-12: 10:40:00
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Synchuistic
Created by: gabngar
Pronunciation: Sink-wistick
Sentence: no.
Etymology: Synch: to match or fuse Linguistic: as pertains to language
Akolangpede
Created by: leomar
Pronunciation: ako-lang-pede
Sentence: ako=me, lang=only, pede=allow, thats me only allow, akolangpede..
Etymology: ako, lang, pede
Mimeojargon
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: mim/ee/uh/jar/gon
Sentence: After spending many hours interviewing high school students, the counsellor's mimeojargon became part of her life and her friends just didn't understand her.
Etymology: mimeograph + jargon
Localocution
Created by: Pseudonym
Pronunciation: low-kal-lo-kew-shun
Sentence: "Thirty minutes in a departure lounge, and I'm already doing localocution!"
Etymology: locality + locution
Lolerize
Created by: graypenguin
Pronunciation: lawl-er-ize
Sentence: He became so lolerized that nobody knows what he's saying except 16 year old girls.
Etymology: lol + ized (as in "to become")
Comments:
Jabberwocky - 2007-09-12: 10:46:00
and if you happen to like run on sentences you would be a linguaclonedrone
Does that mean if you drone on endlessly to people on a mobile you are a cellphone linguaclonedrone?