Saturday, June 27, 2009

Psychiatric definitions for covert use in everyday life

1. Logorrhoea- the sciency version of 'verbal diarrhea'. When there is increased quantity but not rate of speech

2. Cryptolalia- making up idioms that no one else knows the meaning of. Use of an entire private idiom.

3. Circumstantiality- eliza's style of story telling. Goal-orientated and organised, but crramped with too much detail.

4. Pseudologica fantastica- my favorite, it means fluent and plausible lying.

5. Paragrammatism- plain old bad grammar speaking.

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