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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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Parrotism
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Please stop that parrotism. I cannot help talking like that.
Etymology:
Spenktulate
Created by: Sarahbarah
Pronunciation: Spenk-too-late
Sentence: I found myself a spenktulate when I started speaking in a colloquial manner with my grandson.
Etymology: Spe_k: "Speak" to talk N" "not, non, no" not talk
Desponk
Created by: ericsimmons39
Pronunciation: De- spawnk
Sentence: After a week at camp with 11th graders. I've slowly been desponking to the point where i'm loling when they brb to pick up.
Etymology: Descend + spoke + nk
Vocallies
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: voh-kuh-lahyz
Sentence: John spent a weekend in Brooklyn and began to vocallies by saying "fugetaboudit" all the time.
Etymology: vocal + lies
Empatholocute
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)
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
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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Synchuistic
Created by: gabngar
Pronunciation: Sink-wistick
Sentence: no.
Etymology: Synch: to match or fuse Linguistic: as pertains to language
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)
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?