Debonics
Faux urban ghetto misspelling slang used by Dr. Deb Frisch in her blog posts and comments around the blogosphere.
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Debonics
The ability to temporarily alter one's speech patterns, vocabulary, and grammar from native Ebonics to a more standardized style of the English language, with the goal of improving communication and understanding.
dwebonics
Similar in historical beginnings as ebonics, dwebonics is a variation of articulate english generally used by those in high-tech fields, Star Trek fans, politicians.
It is characterized as substituing relatively easy words and phrases with overly complicated ones.
It is characterized as substituing relatively easy words and phrases with overly complicated ones.
Dwebonics: "Initiate water propogation through valve manipulation."
English: "Turn on the hose."
Dwebonics: "I have remotely calibrated the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation optical encoding device to emanate visual/audio depictions"
English: "I turned on the DVD player"
English: "Turn on the hose."
Dwebonics: "I have remotely calibrated the Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation optical encoding device to emanate visual/audio depictions"
English: "I turned on the DVD player"
dwebonics by JacknRochNY September 7, 2007
fogey
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
You the birthday
You the birthday-you the point, you the topic, the reason we here, can be used as a compliment / u looking good or silly/trolling
You the birthday by Dev-in April 4, 2026
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