Verboticisms

Created by: cmcesq

Pronunciation: Ver-nack-a-meel-eon

Sentence: No matter where she travelled, she spoke like a native -- a true vernachameleon.

Etymology: Vernacular + chameleon

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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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Created by: Nettle

Pronunciation: sim-i-tay-shun

Sentence: Austin found himself simitating a Northumbrian accent while touring the area, attempting to sell vacuum cleaners to people who already own one.

Etymology: imitation + simulation with a dash of simian, because it's an instinctive behaviour and a little monkey-like.

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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: 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

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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: faithlessphil

Pronunciation: Em-pa-tho-lo-kyut

Sentence: James' English accent is so strong that Linda couldn't help but to empatholocute.

Etymology: Empathy + Elocute (from elocution)

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: hack + sent

Sentence: I found myself speaking in a brogue when I visited Ireland, luckily nobody beat me up for having such a painfully obvious haccent.

Etymology: Hack + accent

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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: 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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