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BRAINSTORM on the FORECAST
Language is a brain function and like everything in the brain, it is subject to disease or damage.
Abibliophobia - the fear of running out of things to read.
Allolalia - speech disorder featuring randomly spoken words
Anomia - a difficulty in finding the right words or the inability to remember names
Aphasia - partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, usually due to damage inflicted on the brain by injury or disease.
Cacoëthes loquendi - irresistible urge to speak
Cacoëthes scribendi - irresistible urge to write
Colygraphia - writers block.
Coprolalia - uncontrolled, excessive use of obscene or scatological language, sometimes accompanying certain mental disorders.
Dontopedalogy - the aptitude for putting one's foot in one's mouth.
Dysgraphia - impairment of the ability to write, usually caused by brain dysfunction or disease.
Dyslalia - impairment of the ability to speak due to defective speech organs.
Dyslexia - a learning disorder distinguished by impaired ability to recognize and comprehend written words.
Dysprosody - speech impairment characterized by a loss of control of intonation and rhythm.
Embololalia - interpolation of meaningless sounds or words into speech. Mogigraphia
Writing with difficulty.
Hadeharia - constant use of the word “hell”
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - the fear of long words.
Largiloquent - talkative; full of words
Lethologica - when you can’t think of a word for something
Loganamnosis - refers to the mania for trying to recall a forgotten word.
Logocentrism - obsession with the word.
Logorrhea - excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness
Logomisia - disgust or hatred of particular words.
Malapropism - misapplication of words without mispronunciation
Mogilalia - speaking with difficulty.
Monologophobia - compulsive avoidance of repetition.
Multiloquence - talkativeness; use of many words
Onomatomania - irresistible desire to repeat certain words
Onomatophobia - fear of hearing a certain word
Palilalia - disorder characterized by rapid repetition of words
Paragraphia - writing of different letters and words than intended
Paramnesia - abnormality of memory; inability to remember the meaning of word
Paranym - euphemism; word whose meaning altered to conceal evasion
Paraphasia - disorder in which one word substituted for another
Parasynesis - corruption of forms of words
Parasynthesis - derivation of words using hyphenated compounds
Pleonasm - use of a superfluity of words, often deliberately, for emphasis. "i've never seen anything more obscene in all my 80 years on this earth."
Psittacism - parrot-like repetition in speech
Scrabblement - the writing of a rambling character likeii that of a madman.
Sesquipedalian - someone who overuses long words in order to appear smart
Semanticsatiation - when you say or read a word so many times it stops making sense
Shturmovshchina - refers to the practice of writing frantically just before a deadline.
Symbolophobia - the fear of symbolism.
Synaesthesia - brain disorder characterized by a cross-referencing of senses: for example, sounds might be "seen" and colors might be "heard."
Synaloepha - omitting one of two vowels, one of which occurs at the end of one word and the other of which occurs at the beginning of the next word; a type of metaplasm. "th'other," a shortening of "the other."
Syncategorematic - meaningless or unable to form a term without other words
Synchysis - confused arrangement of words in a sentence, either by accident or on purpose; an extreme instance of hyperbaton or anastrophe.
Verbalism - undue attention to words alone
Verbicide - the killing of a word or the distortion of its original meaning,
Verbigeration - the habit of frequently repeating favorite words or expressions.
Verbose - using too many words to convey a d was ar thought - a mental disorder characterized by the making of poor jokes and puns and the telling of pointless stories and usually caused by lesions on the frontal lobe.
Wordbound -unable to find expression in words
Allolalia - speech disorder featuring randomly spoken words
Anomia - a difficulty in finding the right words or the inability to remember names
Aphasia - partial or total loss of the ability to articulate ideas or comprehend spoken or written language, usually due to damage inflicted on the brain by injury or disease.
Cacoëthes loquendi - irresistible urge to speak
Cacoëthes scribendi - irresistible urge to write
Colygraphia - writers block.
Coprolalia - uncontrolled, excessive use of obscene or scatological language, sometimes accompanying certain mental disorders.
Dontopedalogy - the aptitude for putting one's foot in one's mouth.
Dysgraphia - impairment of the ability to write, usually caused by brain dysfunction or disease.
Dyslalia - impairment of the ability to speak due to defective speech organs.
Dyslexia - a learning disorder distinguished by impaired ability to recognize and comprehend written words.
Dysprosody - speech impairment characterized by a loss of control of intonation and rhythm.
Embololalia - interpolation of meaningless sounds or words into speech. Mogigraphia
Writing with difficulty.
Hadeharia - constant use of the word “hell”
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - the fear of long words.
Largiloquent - talkative; full of words
Lethologica - when you can’t think of a word for something
Loganamnosis - refers to the mania for trying to recall a forgotten word.
Logocentrism - obsession with the word.
Logorrhea - excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness
Logomisia - disgust or hatred of particular words.
Malapropism - misapplication of words without mispronunciation
Mogilalia - speaking with difficulty.
Monologophobia - compulsive avoidance of repetition.
Multiloquence - talkativeness; use of many words
Onomatomania - irresistible desire to repeat certain words
Onomatophobia - fear of hearing a certain word
Palilalia - disorder characterized by rapid repetition of words
Paragraphia - writing of different letters and words than intended
Paramnesia - abnormality of memory; inability to remember the meaning of word
Paranym - euphemism; word whose meaning altered to conceal evasion
Paraphasia - disorder in which one word substituted for another
Parasynesis - corruption of forms of words
Parasynthesis - derivation of words using hyphenated compounds
Pleonasm - use of a superfluity of words, often deliberately, for emphasis. "i've never seen anything more obscene in all my 80 years on this earth."
Psittacism - parrot-like repetition in speech
Scrabblement - the writing of a rambling character likeii that of a madman.
Sesquipedalian - someone who overuses long words in order to appear smart
Semanticsatiation - when you say or read a word so many times it stops making sense
Shturmovshchina - refers to the practice of writing frantically just before a deadline.
Symbolophobia - the fear of symbolism.
Synaesthesia - brain disorder characterized by a cross-referencing of senses: for example, sounds might be "seen" and colors might be "heard."
Synaloepha - omitting one of two vowels, one of which occurs at the end of one word and the other of which occurs at the beginning of the next word; a type of metaplasm. "th'other," a shortening of "the other."
Syncategorematic - meaningless or unable to form a term without other words
Synchysis - confused arrangement of words in a sentence, either by accident or on purpose; an extreme instance of hyperbaton or anastrophe.
Verbalism - undue attention to words alone
Verbicide - the killing of a word or the distortion of its original meaning,
Verbigeration - the habit of frequently repeating favorite words or expressions.
Verbose - using too many words to convey a d was ar thought - a mental disorder characterized by the making of poor jokes and puns and the telling of pointless stories and usually caused by lesions on the frontal lobe.
Wordbound -unable to find expression in words
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