Entertainment / Literature / Metaplasmus: A type of neologism in which misspelling a word creates a rhetorical effect. To emphasize dialect, one might spell dog as 'dawg.' To emphasize that something is unimportant, we might add -let or -ling at the end of the word, referring to a deity as a 'godlet' or a prince as a 'princeling.' To emphasize the feminine nature of something normally considered masculine, try adding the suffix -ette to the end of the word, creating a smurfette or a corvette. To modernize something old, the writer might turn the Greek god Hermes into the Hermenator. Likewise, Austin Powers renders all things shagedelic. For more information, see the subdivisions of metaplasmus under schemes.
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Entertainment / Literature / Dialect: The language of a particular district, class, or group of persons. The term dialect encompasses the sounds, spelling, grammar, and diction employed by a specific people as distinguished from other per MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Eye Dialect: A type of metaplasmus using unconventional spellings to represent conventional pronunciation: for instance, 'He shud of left sooner' instead of 'He should have left sooner.' MORE