Unusual Names or Words

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Okay, this is kind of odd, but do any of you have made up words, names or languages that only a few select people are privy to? My sons, their father and I have a unique language that we use when talking to each other. I'm not really sure how or when it started. Some of the words we use are real words that just have a different meaning than the Normal meaning.
Examples of made up words:
Hoofsnaggles - can either be hands or feet depending on if they are "upper" or "lower"
Wickadoon - any old car or truck that looks to be ready to fall apart.
Gee, I hope we're not the only ones that do this, LOL.
- Patti -

Sometimes I make up words, but not as a "code" or anything like that. They're mostly just new English words I come up with. Here's one with its definition:

Whatevered-- (wut-ev-erd) ptv. Like the word "whatever," only past tense. I can't believe he posted/uploaded/whatevered something that sounds that bad!

I also come up with little "terms." Here are some:

Survivor IIII-- (sur-VIVE-er-for) n. A vehicle full of people that's not moving. It went from a canoe trip to Survivor IIII just like that.
Ryan-y-- (rye-un-EY) adj. Having to do with Ryan (a disgusting boy that I hate). Ryan's behavior is very Ryan-y, to make it short.

Names:

Zhalds-- (zholdz) My nickname for my dad.

Those are all the ones I can remember. There may be more.

Mich

As a kid, I constructed an artificial language, complete with grammar rules and small vocabulary. The language was not similar to any existing one, and members of my family were not interested in learning it, unfortunately. One can also say that my first attempts at speech, at age 2, were a constructed language, because nobody would be able to understand it if I didn't run pointing my finger at objects and shouting their names. My mother kept a dictionary.

Recently I have developed a "language" for numbers, to help me remember telephone numbers. Although this is rather an encryption code, it produces nicely-sounding short words, reminiscent of Hawaiian or Japanese. For example emrani means 391 and ingo havato means 164-4440.

hi Mich,

Yes, I make up terms like that, too. The most recent that my loving sons have began is "gumshoe" or "gumshoed" which means to totally melt down or to have a temper tantrum. This was coined because of an episode I had at an amusement park. I stepped in a big wad of gum someone had spat onto the sidewalk....needless to say that was all it took for me to have a complete meltdown - I had gum all over the place. It's comical now but at the time I was really fuming Hehehe Now they say things to me such as, "Mom, let's not get all gumshoe about having to wait in line, okay?"
- Patti -

Hi Magic,

My youngest son used to have a vocabulary of words that he used when he began to talk. It was as if he knew another language. My oldest son was the first to notice it. We all thought it was pretty cool.
I find your language for numbers quite interesting, indeed. I only wish I could devise something like that for me to help myself remember numbers as I am not very good at remembering dates and numbers. Obscure bits of information, I can remember, but numbers....not a chance.
- Patti -

Isn't 'gumshoe' slang for a detective? Y'know like 'dick', 'P.I.', or 'Private Eye'?

I have two kinds of languages like that.
First, I am used to make up words in French, based on English words. The most famous one in my family makes my brother laugh each time I use it. I say "basicalement", which comes from "basically", but which has no meaning in French.
Also, we have a language on my father's side, with a vocabulary, grammar rules, etc, and we wrote books to learn it. It sounds like Eastern Europe languages with some Spanish and English in it, which is quite funny to hear when you are not used to it. We call it with a name my father and his siblings came up with when they were teenagers : "syriaque". This name has no meaning.

Loy

That's right gumshoe is slang for detective, lol. In my case though, I guess the definition is more like raving lunatic.

Loy, that's so facinating! Two different languages! I really like your word "basicalement" too. It feels good to say, which is another quirky thing I like to do. I speak certain words out loud (mostly to myself) just because I like the way it feels to say it. The word plethora is one word I enjoy using. - Patti -

My father, who I'm almost certain has asperger's syndrome too, has a very odd speech impediment which I mimicked when I was young.

he says 'jesus christ' like "jeezit christ"
"three" like "twee"

It's hard to make sense of alot of the stuff he says... this one time he went to east side mario's restaurant and some b***h waiter made fun of him, she got fired and we all got a free meal out of it

I like these artificial words that have been synthesized! Some of them are so funny... would be great for an Aspie comedy movie.

I've got some myself. I just can't remember at the moment...