Verboticisms

Created by: StigAllan

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Please stop that parrotism. I cannot help talking like that.

Etymology:

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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")

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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

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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: 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: 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

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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

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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: 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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