Verboticisms

Created by: Guthlaf1

Pronunciation: VER-tyoo-KOZ-my-TISS

Sentence: I'm afraid he's come down with a bad case of virtucosmitis, Mrs Jenkins. We recommend either confiscating his electronic equipment, or locking him away in a padded room, for life.

Etymology: From "virtual" + "cosmos" (universe) + "-itis"

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Created by: zrotv

Pronunciation: net - rek -d

Sentence: I had a lot of stuff to do this weekend, but then I started reading wikipedia and got totally netwrecked.

Etymology: network + wrecked

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Created by: ratika

Pronunciation: n-at-whaist-ed

Sentence: Are you netwasted, do you feel that your computer is your only friend, then you might be suffering from webism? Call this number and ask for help.

Etymology: Net (short for internet)+ wasted

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Created by: Jeaneai

Pronunciation: Ner-diff-eh-kate-ed

Sentence: I haven't seen Robert around the office since he started playing Runescape. D'you think he's been nerdificated?

Etymology: Nerd, Something ending with -ificated

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: vərchoōəlītis

Sentence: Jill has a bad case of virtualitis. Her on-line personality is fascinating. She skydives, surfs professionally, builds her own choppers and is in training for the next X Games. If only any of this was true. Her on-line photo album on has more Photo Shop work than a year*s worth of Playboy covers. When a couple of her friends tried to rally all of her friends from Facebook to help her, they found that many of them were made up too, other iterations of Jill herself.

Etymology: virtual (not physically existing as such but made by software to appear to do so) + itis (forming names of inflammatory diseases)

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: vee-ahr-GEHT

Sentence: Alex veeargot his school assignment because the file was tucked behind his Sims screen.

Etymology: vee + ar [(v)irtual (r)eality] + forget

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SY-ber-myrd

Sentence: For the last couple years Linda has been absolutely cybermired, deeply immersed in communication on the internet thru Twitter, Facebook, and public forums, as well as being heavily involved in texting on her cellphone.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'cyber' (a combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,”) and 'Mired' (mire v.tr. To hinder, entrap, or entangle as if in mire)

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Created by: grahaff

Pronunciation: i maj ad dikt

Sentence: I am sick and tired off looking in through the window and seeing you imagaddicting while I enjoy the sun outside.

Etymology: imagination (the faculty or action of forming new ideas, or images or concepts of external objects not present to the senses) + addict (a person who is obsessed with something in particular)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: my - kro - selfd

Sentence: Jed was a difficult person to carry on a conversation with. He was so microselfed that he only imagined himself. He felt only truly alive as an avatar and ceased to belive in real friends; only imaginary ones sufficed now. In those few minutes that he did "look up" from his laptop, all we saw was a blank stare and no recognition that he knew who we were either.

Etymology: micro (microcomputer, Microsoft, self

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Created by: Bertie

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I broke into the flat only to find that the poor soul was already depitute.

Etymology:

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