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1/27/12 More Fauxcabulary Words
People generally speak differently depending who they talk to. At work you use industry jargon. At the bar with your buds you curse like a sailor. At a family gathering you don't curse like a sailor. Unless maybe you come from a family of salty-talking sailors. The point is, our speech is flexible, we adjust for who, when and where. For this I have coined some bits of fauxcabulary... flexicon (FLEKS e-kon) noun, words one uses tailored to the audience or social setting. Within our flexicon there are any number of subsets. Following my usual formula of combining two words into a single portmanteau word, here are a few more using synonyms for lexicon like lingo, argot, and patios. Here are but a few. gobble-degeek (GAH bul dee geek), tech terms you sort-of know used to impress people who don't know. Texicon (TEK se kon), words used to sound like a Texan, y'all. ar-r-rgot (ARRR go), words used to sound like a pirate, ye matie. phatois (fah TWA), words used to sound like a gansta, dog. badda-balingo (bah dah bah LIN-go), words used to sound like an Italian gangster, capice? libberish (LIH-ber ish), politically correct terms used in politically correct society. bluephemism (BLOO fem iz-um), substitute term for a sexual act or naughty bit. Sometimes more polite versions, sometimes more raunchy. 'Naughty bit' is an example of the former, an example of the latter I leave to your imagination. brocabulary (bro KAB yoo lar-ree), words used among male friends. Often as not a lot of bluephemisms and no libberish. hocabulary (ho KAB yoo lar-ree), female version of brocabulary. That's all I got. Yar, I'm out, y'all fuggitabouddit. Filed under Word Definitions & Origins 1/24/12 Beyond ESP ![]() Top Ten Pretty Much Worthless Paranormal Powers: Rubberglubility: Ability to have insults bounce of you and stick to the insulter. Oblivoyance: Ability to have sounds go in one ear and out the other. Revoyance: Ability to bounce ideas off people. Televoyance: Ability to project your thoughts into inanimate objects. For thinking inside or outside the box. Unvoyance: Ability to know what people are not thinking. Nix-ray vision: Ability to see the invisible. When used clear things are opaque. Which, unfortunately, includes the air. Chronosis: Ability to speed or slow time and yourself at the same rate. Which makes no difference to anyone else, or yourself for that matter. Circularnation: Ability to die and come back as yourself and do it all over again exactly the same way, though you never realize it. Paralevitation: Ability to levitate in weightless environments. Gullibility: Ability to believe the unbelievable. And five sensory perceptions that aren't so worthless. Ability to smell a rat, taste success, feel good, hear opportunity knocking, and see the truth. Filed under Top Tens & Other Lists Blab Latest & Greatest Shorts Blab Departments: Cartoons The Casual Sportsman Fun Facts & Trivia Infrequently Answered Questions Talkin Bout Money Top Tens & Other Lists Word Definitions & Origins Blab Favorites: Why there are 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in an hour Why dinosaurs are improbable and tiny men are supermen Where UPPER and lower case come from Why there is no channel one on broadcast tv Lies, damned lies, statistics, and politics Why it's so hard to change people's minds Haste makes waste and he who hesitates is lost Why liberal and conservative aren't opposites Fauxcabulary, or words I made up The Sports File: What are the odds of a parlay? Links: Laughing Stock illustration
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Or Stupid Automobile Tricks Lots of people have fond memories of their first car, a warm fuzzy nostalgia for that symbol of youthful independence. First cars are often used cars, often very used. Meaning they might have had more value as a cube of crushed scrap metal than as transportation. Still, the cash-strapped youth of America would buy these zombie-mobiles to squeeze out a few more miles before sending them to remeet their makers. Being a cash-strapped American youth, I participated in this sort-of cash for clunkers program.
Such vehicle leftovers would often as not have some rather unique non-standard aftermarket add-ons not found at any auto parts store. "Features" were added, a wire coat-hanger aerial, duck tape Bondo. And parts were missing, little things, radio knobs, the radio itself, a bumper or two. Many bits didn't work as well as they once had, in some cases not at all. Heaters became air-conditioning, but only in winter. Hand-cranked windows became hand-pulled windows. Or windows might have been plastic sheeting duck-taped in place. (Duck tape heals all auto wounds.) We called these nearly washed-up cars beaters. I think this originally comes from winter-beater, which were older cars folks drove to prevent road salt from eating their primary cars which were stored in the garage all winter. Though, as in my case, a beater was sometimes someone's only car. I was maybe nineteen when I bought my first car, a beater, which cost all of one hundred dollars. A very used 1964 Ford Falcon. Your basic, no-frills economy car, six cylinders, three-speed manual transmission, vinyl-covered front bench seat, rubber floor mats.... Humor Features How I Almost Ran Myself Over with My First Car Or Stupid Automobile Tricks Money Blather Your Guide to Economic Jargon, Lingo, and Gobbledegook Lights, Camera, Reaction! The Periodic Table of Hollywood Plot Elements The Miracle Multiplier How to Solve our Economic Woes with Government Math Those Darn Cats Our deal with the devils Government Machinery at Work How the Wheels of the Bureaucracy Grind American History 101 2.0 A fake but accurate account Watt is it? Musings on the Nature of Light Space Warps and Wefts What fabric is the fabric of space made of? The Day the Universe Stopped Standing Still How it all began explained for people who don't take reality seriously Unnatural Empty Junkfood Words Half-Baked Buzz Phrases and Overcooked Terms Blogolicious! Form Follows Function Follows Fun Uranimals Beastly Beasts Find the Secret Message A different kind of word search Clever Silliness and Silly Cleverness Tiny minds and tiny urls Man is a Verb, Woman is an Adjective Dirt is a noun between them Star Dreck Musings of a semi hemi demi trekker Unreality TV No shows Dangerous Hot Air The truth about inconvenient global warming Not-so-Special Winter Olympics Olympic events you'll never see Greetings, Earth-things A blog from one step beyond the outer limits of the twilight zone Don't Look Down Everthing you never wanted to know about air travel Happy New Year 2007 in review From Reader's Digest Venn Again, Maybe Not Another Last Laugh Quick and Easy Meals For the Cooking Impaired Cracked Archives The Future Ain't What it Used to Be Bizarre Business Cards We Hope We Never See History's Least Successful Proto Humans Police Line-ups Around the World (and Beyond) Trojan Horse Designs That Didn't Quite Make it Suck.com Archives (off site) Crash Course Cartoon motorcycle accidents versus cartoonist motorcycle accidents Suck School of Comic Art How to Draw Funny Suck School of Comic Art - Graduate Course How to Draw Funnier |
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