Verboticism: Vernaculagiarize
DEFINITION: v. To adopt other people's words, phrases and linguistic stylings, and then try to make them your own by subtlety altering the syntax. n. A borrowed and butchered phrase
Vernaculagiarize
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: vər-nāk'yə-lā'jə-rīz'
Sentence: Madge could have predicted that when Melvin got off the phone with his Texas Oilman client his speech would be different. "Whatch'yall a fixin'?" he vernaculagiarized. "Dahling, please. Knock it off," Madge pleaded, as the gefilte fish simmered. "Whah, ah don't know what'cher tahkin' abayat," he responded. For a Jew from Passaic, New Jersey, he sounded decidedly cowboy, all of a sudden.
Etymology: 'Vern,' off-camera foil of the late spokesperson Jim Varney's character, Ernest P. Worrell; 'acula,' from Dr. Acula, grindcore band from Long Island, NY; 'Gia,' after Gia Carangi, top fashion model, late 1970's; 'rize,' var. of rise, to ascend. Alternately, to plagiarize one's vernacular.
Points: 1022
Comments: Vernaculagiarize
Tigger - 2008-04-25: 02:43:00
Poor Earnest. The world still mourns his loss, I'm sure... don't they?
Mustang - 2008-04-25: 07:25:00
I sprained my tongue just saying vernaculargiarize. It was still fun. Good word.
OZZIEBOB - 2008-04-25: 18:31:00
Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who spoke with a stuttering surfeit of ums and ahs, would have a lot of trouble pronouncing this one. Your comment about the "one-legged well digger" brings to mind another of his favorite quips : "Ah, ah, the problem with you, you, you, is that you got one foot on sticky, sticky paper and ya other on the f-ffence." Luv your word, blends nicely.
Nosila - 2008-04-25: 22:24:00
Who Knew?? Talk amongst yourselves, I'll give you a topic. No Big Whoop! "If Russia invaded Turkey from the rear, would Greece help???" Discuss. (From Linda Richman, SNL, "Coffee Talks" skits with Mike Meyer.
petaj - 2008-04-26: 03:17:00
I like verbacusmalliarize. Err was that a vernaculargiarizism?