Verboticisms

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: 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

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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: 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: staggolee

Pronunciation: vo-KA-myoo-LAYT vo (as in vote)-KA (as in cat)-myoo-LAYT

Sentence: I admire her so much, I try to vocamulate her speaking style.

Etymology: v. [Seattle-American English---vocal: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vōcālis, from vōx, vōc + emulate: Latin aemulārī, aemulāt-, from aemulus, emulous]

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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: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: ver-BOR-row

Sentence: Nigel was often miffed that people felt it was necessary to verborrow his British accent when speaking to him.

Etymology: Verbal and Borrow

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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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Created by: StigAllan

Pronunciation:

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

Etymology:

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: lin-gost

Sentence: After visiting New York, I realized I was left with a linghost when I ordered lobstah with with gahlic sooahce.

Etymology: lingo, ghost

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COMMENTS:

sort of like Casper the friendlinghost - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-12: 09:54:00

It's all getting a bit spooky for me. When I wish to contact the spirit world, I talk to my barman. Nice word it sorta lingers. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-12: 17:29:00

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