allogenisms

Noun

allogenism (plural allogenisms)

1. (rare) A pseudo-loan, or sometimes specifically a lexical construction (term or phrase) made using elements from another language, but which does not exist in that language.
   • We also document, as a key feature of SMS communication, hybrid forms of language use that blur the boundaries between what we commonly call languages (e.g. homographs, mixed spellings or allogenisms), and we suggest that these possibly indicate that SMS communication has become one site where the...2012 January, Étienne Morel et al., “SMS communication as plurilingual communication: Hybrid language use as a challenge for classical code-switching categories”, in Lingvisticæ Investigationes...