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08/22/2001 6:53 PM
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idiolect (ID-ee-uh-lekt) noun
Language usage pattern unique to a person.
When I first saw this word, I could not think of a way to make a post about it. But just now I remembered that our peerless poster, faldage, has one word he uses to self-deprecatingly avoid linguaphile ostentation: "parbly."
It suddenly seemed to me that this is an idiolect of his, since he alone uses it. But what to say about it?
Finally it dawned on me that it might be described by some of the rhetoric terms which I have trouble remembering for more than five minutes. Since his word is presumably an alteration of the word "probably", it has undergone two forms of metaplasm: antisthecon, and syneresis
Antisthecon is the substitution of a sound, syllable, or letter within a word.
Syneresis is the contraction of two syllables into one.
Are there others that I missed?.
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#39157
08/22/2001 7:45 PM
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I have a real life example of ideolect, one which I am using in my new novel (hopefully the guy who used this word is LONG dead!)
Elmer was a contract employee of the post office that served the little town I grew up in, delivering mail on a rural route. He punctuated just about every sentence with the word "bolly". I first heard this when I was about 10, and had NO idea what he meant. Eventually I asked someone in the town, who told me that what he was saying was originally "by golly". And all this time I had thought he was calling his interlocutor by the name bolly. Stuck with me ALL these years.
TEd
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#39158
08/22/2001 8:28 PM
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our peerless poster, faldage
So--can one word constitute an idiolect, then? tsuwm?
If so, part of my idiolect is that I still maintain that a person is not a poster! [self-yart] If I am unable to get around this usage, I write post-er.
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Ted--all love to you, bolly.
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#39159
08/22/2001 8:32 PM
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a person is not a poster!
I am an imposter.
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#39160
08/22/2001 9:26 PM
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Faldage is the poster with the moster.
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#39161
08/22/2001 9:55 PM
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>So--can one word constitute an idiolect, then? no. your ideolect is the language you speak. we could maintain that yours is unique, as is everyones. in fact, this is a good idea for a new thread: My Ideolect http://courses.lib.odu.edu/engl/jbing/444-ideolect.htmlwho wants to start it?
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08/23/2001 12:20 PM
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the poster with the moster.
Aw, shucks, Dr. Bill. Yer gonna make me think you like me.
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#39163
08/23/2001 12:48 PM
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I first read that as "The poster with the moNster", and had to do a double take... I didn't even want to think why Dr Bill would be saying such a thing!   
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#39164
08/23/2001 12:59 PM
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The poster with the moNster
You sayin' Dr. Bill called me a poncester?
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08/23/2001 1:30 PM
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As good old Nixon used to say, let me make this very clear. I do indeed like Faldage's contributions, and since they are all I have to go by, I do like Faldage himself. Any appearances to the contrary were created only in jest.
And I am still amazed that no one has called me on the carpet for having mis-spelled "idiolect".
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08/23/2001 1:59 PM
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bill, you doofus!
it's spelled idiolect - Linguistics.
[f. idio- after dialect.]
The linguistic system of one person, differing in some details from that of all other speakers of the same dialect or language.
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#39167
08/23/2001 2:19 PM
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bill, you doofus!
it's spelled idiolecttsuwm! I am shocked, simply shocked that you, of all people, would make such a terribly unfounded accusation about our dear Dr. Bill! No less prestigious an institute than Old Dominion University spells it ideolect. See http://courses.lib.odu.edu/engl/jbing/444-ideolect.html. We know that this institute is prestigious because, on their home page ( http://www.odu.edu/) they have a picture of a person of color standing in front of a white board with the words Creole Culture legible behind him and two dead white guys wearing robes with fuzzy black bars on them shaking each others hands.
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#39168
08/23/2001 2:36 PM
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tsuwm! I am shocked, simply shocked that you, of all people, would make such a terribly unfounded accusation about our dear Dr. Bill! No less prestigious an institute than Old Dominion University spells it ideolect.
as did I and half a hunnert other doofus so-called logofiles right here in the center of this very ring.
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