Verboticism: Leeschpik
DEFINITION: To unconsciously adopt the vocal mannerisms and linguistic stylings of the people with whom you are speaking.
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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
Leeschpik
Created by: h4ste
Pronunciation: leech - speek
Sentence: 4 months was all it took for you to leeschpik us Australians, good on ya mate!
Etymology: leech + speak
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COMMENTS:
Bloody oath! ( I hope Google's right and that means "too true") I was trying to pick up on your leech reference - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-12: 10:40:00
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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
Convertsation
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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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
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
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)
Parrotism
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Please stop that parrotism. I cannot help talking like that.
Etymology: