I could jump up out of my library chair, toss my cap in the air and shout "Huzzah!" Here's why.

Some time ago, I made a thread here referring to one's analect--that is, the word choices and usages that make you sound like, well, you--as oppioed to Homer Simpson or George Will. Numerous people pointed out that "analect" was the wrong word. Turns out, the word I wanted was (guess what?) "idiolect."

Evidently I had misrecalled and/or confabulated the word, or my college prof misspoke.

Anyway, I thought it would be fun to talk about our own idiolects.

In English I express myself as I can.
In Spanish, I usually try to use the most precise words, despite they are uncommon in informal speaking and that makes me sound intelectualish, something that people call "hablar en difícil" (meaning talking in difficult like 'difficult' being a language)

BTW the word "idiolects" seems to mean the dialects spoken by idiots. And analects well...

^I'm guessing it's the same root as in "idiosyncratic."

Completely off-topic, but the quote in your signature is actually attributed to Pope Leo X.

I would think peoples' nonverbal behavior while speaking would be much more distinctive than their actual words. Tough I guess it all needs its own name, regardless.

Yeah, this post doesn't add anything to the topic either.

I'm posting this to check my post count.

Completely off-topic, but the quote in your signature is actually attributed to Pope Leo X.

Yep. The language was updated a tad, but that was the gist of it. (New sig now, BTW--I change sig's more often than I change underwear.)