Since we’re talking about idiolects, here’s something silly that amused me greatly. I’ve had my phone four months and if i use a word in a text-message which isn’t in its dictionary then it remembers it. Today I found a way to look at this list of added words. In a way they show my (text-message) idiolect. And sometimes also my bad spelling. Here they are:
amazonian
clunky
beddy-byes
barcodes
boogaloo
cripes
catatonia
ain’t
corduroy
bummed
aikido
bookshop
beered
bah
approx
aha
arf
empiricism
drunkenly
doh
dick
faffed
flagons
falafal
desirious
footy
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dojo
damn
huzzah
gotcha
idiolect
halogen
grr
harrassed
hiphop
hurrah
hiccups
hungover
glow-worms
har
lentils
laff
kip
nowish
naff
neuroscience
nah
neoliberalism
overdoing
mislaid
mouching
ouch
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puke
prodigal
physicist
ribaldry
snobbery
retunes
sooooo
piss
secs
pubbing
paraphanalia
purgatoried
pissed
poncey
skint
stilton
sparklehorse
reggae
turd
torsos
tiks
writeme
yukky
wenches
zori
wassup
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also a great ‘random’ word table for generating band names !
contenders:
ain’t courduroy bummed
neuroscience grr
stilton bookshop
pubbing doh
Actually, on second thoughts…
; )
spare a stenographer
Moving slighly beyond mapping my own idio-vocabulary and another post on text (of which an impossible but exciting and eponymously titled book by John Mowitt) at idiolect, I thought it would be interesting to publish a personal Hansard – and to explore…