Wallacisms

The vast number of "verbal ticks" and structural elements that make Wallace's work instantly recognizable. These include:

• lengthy footnotes and/or endnotes
• repetition of certain words and phrases, as motifs or greater themes, e.g.
  • howling fantods
  • map and territory, map, demapping
  • squeak
  • IYI
  • The Dow, a play on Tao and the Dow Jones
• creative misspellings, often resembling Freudian slips or revealing a characters' verbal limitations
• use of Latin phrases used primarily in mathematical proofs and philosophy