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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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Automimic
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: awe-toe-mim-ick
Sentence: why this car is automimic, systemimic, hyyyyyydrooomimic..why it could be greased lightning!
Etymology: automatic, mimic
Adapterpretation
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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Cloneunciation
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
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)
Linguaclone
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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Milinguic
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: mi-ling-gu-ik
Sentence: Hal milinguicked the students to come across more youthful. Unfortunately he messed up a few words so he ended up making a complete fool of himself.
Etymology: mimic + lingual
Akolangpede
Created by: leomar
Pronunciation: ako-lang-pede
Sentence: ako=me, lang=only, pede=allow, thats me only allow, akolangpede..
Etymology: ako, lang, pede
Simitation
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.
Bumpkinistics
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
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
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?