idiolect
- n the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life
- They have just disappeared permanently into his private idiolect.
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- Fredric Jameson in Economic Times
Fredric Jameson writes in his book Cultural Turn: "Each group coming to speak a curious private language of its own, each profession developing its private code or idiolect, and finally each individual coming to be a kind of linguistic island...