Bob Griffith was an English native speaker at our institution NSC Surabaya Polytechnic for two years. He always brought a bottle of mineral water with him when he was teaching. Perhaps, it was because Bob hadn’t gotten accustomed to the weather of Surabaya yet.
Once, because I got something wrong in my throat, I came to class bringing a bottle of mineral water. A colleague commented, “Are you imitating Bob’s style of teaching?”
“Yes,” I replied jokingly. “I am bobizing”.
Bobizing? We will never find the words ‘bobizing’ or ‘to bobize’ in any dictionaries. Bobizing (to bobize) means to imitate Bob. In the same way we can say that you are davidizing, if you are now imitating David. If you are imitating Gustaaf, you are gustaafizing. If you are imitating Inge, you are ……………. (he he he,)
