Verboticisms

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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Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: a-dapped-terr-prett-ashun

Sentence: his adapterpretation was going too far. it was like he was that little voice in my head: saying what i wanted to, but couldn't

Etymology: adapt + interpretation

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COMMENTS:

COLON: - loofarama, 2007-09-12: 16:25:00

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Created by: torpid

Pronunciation: lek'-teyt

Sentence: Because Marie was very self-conscious about her odd verbal mannerisms, she interpreted John's habit of lectating them as intentional mockery.

Etymology: Lect (language) / Idiolect (individual's own language) + Spectate

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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

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Created by: leomar

Pronunciation: ako-lang-pede

Sentence: ako=me, lang=only, pede=allow, thats me only allow, akolangpede..

Etymology: ako, lang, pede

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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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Created by: staggolee

Pronunciation: vo-KA-myoo-LAYT vo (as in vote)-KA (as in cat)-myoo-LAYT

Sentence: I admire her so much, I try to vocamulate her speaking style.

Etymology: v. [Seattle-American English---vocal: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vōcālis, from vōx, vōc + emulate: Latin aemulārī, aemulāt-, from aemulus, emulous]

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Created by: noztril

Pronunciation: bump-kin-es-tiks

Sentence: Charles ordered grits from Billy-bob using his innate bumpkinistic talents.

Etymology: bumpkin as in country plus linguistics

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: lin-GWA-klone

Sentence: When Bob found himself marooned on a tiny desert island with a group of survivors, whose mother tongue was Esperanto, and uttered the palindrome "Sane volema kara rara kamelo venas" (a healthily wishful dear rare camel is coming), he realized that he had fully linguacloned with them.

Etymology: Lingua(l):tongue,speech, language & Clone:identical copy. And let's not forget the rhyme with the self-study language course: Linguaphone

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COMMENTS:

and if you happen to like run on sentences you would be a linguaclonedrone - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-12: 11:18:00

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Created by: Syzygy

Pronunciation: Clo-nun-si-ay-shun

Sentence: After a few drinks with her Southerner friends, Megan began to coneunciate a Southern drawl.

Etymology: Clone and Pronounce

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