Verboticisms

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: miss/trak/shun

Sentence: He suffers from serious misstraction

Etymology: distraction + miss

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: dam nee sha

Sentence: You know the feeling...you go into a room, but forget why you went. You see someone familiar but cannot recall their name. You put your keys down, but cannot find them as you race around getting ready to go to work. Yes, it's that damnesia. You used to have a photographic memory...but now you keep forgetting to buy film for it. Your memory is now like a pen that runs out of ink. You have crossed into a new dementia, The Whywrite Zone.

Etymology: Damn (expletives used informally as intensifiers) & Amnesia (total or partial loss of memory)

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪnˈfjuːdʒətiv/

Sentence: I wanted to use my latest personal brainfugitive as an example in this sentence, but it escaped, and I haven't been able to track it down yet.

Etymology: A fugitive thought that's escaped from the brain.

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COMMENTS:

good one! - toadstool57, 2007-05-21: 07:34:00

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Created by: serendipity9000

Pronunciation: thred-rift

Sentence: I had just the perfect final thought for my paper, but then I lost hold of it and the next minute it was threadrift.

Etymology: Thread (as in thread of an idea or thought) + drift (to move away)

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Created by: guesser

Pronunciation: dis-brain-Ea

Sentence: I don't know which is worse, disbrainia or brain freeze, both make my head hurt!

Etymology:

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Created by: cohenarie

Pronunciation: dis kon THIN kyu

Sentence: Partway through my presentation, I completely disconthinkued, causing me to stop mid-sentence. (One might also experience a "disconthinkcuance")

Etymology: discontinue + think.

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: div err shunnt

Sentence: he always had something cute and witty to say to her, but when he walked into her office, her scent and her smile caused a major divershunt, leaving him simpering while withdrawing to the safety of the men's room.

Etymology: diversion, shunt

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: flee th ink

Sentence: He thought the thought was fleethink but he wasn't sure.

Etymology: fleeting think

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: think - ho - el

Sentence: In trying to remember what she meant to tell her husband, Marnie encountered a thinkhole. She could not retrieve the thoughts that had been preoccupying her for the last day and a half. She felt like her mind was wandering the desert.

Etymology: think, sink, sinkhole

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COMMENTS:

I must thay, that's a thuper word! - whipspeak, 2009-12-04: 08:07:00

Love it! You got my vote! - artr, 2009-12-06: 06:53:00

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: re-memb-er

Sentence: Sophie racked her brains to try and recall the witty comeback she was about to make to her nemesis at work. Unfortunately, her thoughts had switched inconveniently to what she needed to get at the shops on the way home and could only rememberr something totally inadequate.

Etymology: remember (the act of memory) + err (to make a mistake) + er (an expression which indicates uncertainty)

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