A slang, or series of phrases, used by those from the generations of "Great Generation", "Silent Generation", and some "Baby
Boomers" to describe a noun, verb, or situation that earlier generations tend to misunderstand.
Eldonics consist of phrases such as "It's raining cats and
dogs!" and "your barn
door is
open".
Eldonics also consists of the suffix "Itty" preceding with words that rhyme with "It." Other incomplete slang words are "dem", "
der", etc.
Eldonics also consist of misconstruing words such as "Indian" to be pronounced like "Engeeine" , en-jee-uhn.
The prefix derives from the word "Elder" and the suffix derives from the word "phonics".
EX 1.
Mom, Grandma told me "I've got too many Irons in my fire". Why is Grandma running a forge, she's 92 years old!
Oh! Grandma's just using using Eldonics,
don't mind what she says.
EX 2.
"Lookie at dem der itty bitty
titties!"