Nickjtc posted this in the humor section a couple of weeks ago. Heffay came up with two that were pretty good, though I'm not sure they follow the rules of the contest:
here's one i'd like to add to the list... it just came to me!
oxymoron, n: a very clean idiot
ooooh, here's another one!
servitude, adj: to serve w/ an attitude
often associated w/ early morning baristas
This isn't quite the same, but still humorous.
My wife was in Kentucky grading AP English exams earlier this year and came home with a list of made up words and awkwardly punctuated sentences/metaphors and similes gone bad. The assignment was to analyze a short story.
Here are a few examples:
“The excerpt is all in Dasai’s point of view. She’s the author and she wrote it, in the form of her imagination; how she seen it.”
“I did not get a literature orgasum [sic] nor emotionally envolved [sic] in any way. This passage, in my opinion, is from a regular book, sitting on a dusty shelf in a library and there is nothing special about it any way.”
“Just reading, I knew that he had a horrible experience, but as I analyzed it, I knew even further.”
“Being forced to go immediately put a rain cloud on the experience.”
“As the reader continues into the story, the reader learns that he has been placed in the mind of Arun, sitting in the depths of Arun’s mind.”
“The mood that was set between the two of them at this point was seemed to be known that there was an awkwardness, and if not that then a type of feeling associated with it.”
“Descriptive adjectives seem to conquer the novel.”
On third-person narration: “Now, instead of reading like a whiny diary, it reads like a television show.”
“Dasai uses a limited amount of dialogue to emphasize that there was not much talking going on.”
“…vivid descriptions such as the damp, puffy hands also put the reader in Arun’s swimming trunks.”
“Too bad for America that chivalry seems to be an endangered species.”
“An experience is a personal thing for a person.”
“…small town attractions, like bushes with poisonous berries.”
“Desai uses verbs that describe what people are doing or what they are about to do.”
“… the sort of obtuseness of the average American family life.”
“…conventional pastoral notion of the woods.”
“He is much like a wild horse among tame horses—different.”
“Whenever a parent is bound and determined to have fun, it basically means don’t hold in oxygen because I’m going.”
“This is where my Freudian logic comes into play.”
“It was that tense feeling you get when you see a severed limb, or something to that effect.”
Permutations of third person omniscient:
third-person omipotent
third-person omnivorous
third-party omniscient (Nader?)
Ralph Waldo Ellison
King Lear and his foil, King Monticello
Made up/mis-spelled words (this probably a sixth of them):
bluntant
exrospected
blind-sighted
lackzadazzacle (nonchalantly bedazzling something or a critique of a junior high dance squad)
authontataxic
omnisc*nt (rhymes with runt
)
quotationing
complacidly
glavishing
constrivative
growtesk (for grotesque)
Sometimes they would do some creative writing instead of answering the essay:
“This is my haiku.
I think that it’s a good one.
And I’m never wrong.”