"excellentimus"

[fflo]

Checking my tires for marking by the 2-hour parking police, I just heard myself utter aloud, "No chalk! Excellentimus!" I used to use the word in high school, thinking it cool, but it never caught on. Where were their senses of humor, I ask you?

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

It's fake Latin. In Latin the "-imus" makes something superlative---as we do in English with "-est" or "most ______." "Excellent" is too long for a suffix to do that in English, though I'd think "excellentest" funny, too. As I do "irregardless"---the redundant as funny?

I also like "on account of" used incorrectly as what I guess is a subordinate conjunction (vs. in a prepositional sense). On account of I'm twelve (as disclaimerwill might say).

[squirrelykat.livejournal.com]

i love irregardless, too!