Verboticism: Assimilocution
DEFINITION: To unconsciously adopt the vocal mannerisms and linguistic stylings of the people with whom you are speaking.
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Automimic
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: awe-toe-mim-ick
Sentence: why this car is automimic, systemimic, hyyyyyydrooomimic..why it could be greased lightning!
Etymology: automatic, mimic
Haccent
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: hack + sent
Sentence: I found myself speaking in a brogue when I visited Ireland, luckily nobody beat me up for having such a painfully obvious haccent.
Etymology: Hack + accent
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
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
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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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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Audiosmosis
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: aw-dee-ahz-moe-sis
Sentence: Although initially bewildered, I too was soon speaking in a thick Scottish brogue, thanks to audiosmosis.
Etymology: audio + osmosis
Parrotism
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Please stop that parrotism. I cannot help talking like that.
Etymology:
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