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DEFINITION: v. To be so immersed in a virtual world that you forget about your responsibilities to the physical world -- like your job, your family, or even feeding and washing yourself. n. A person who lives exclusively in their imagination.
Verboticisms
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Ecivilated
Created by: jrinka
Pronunciation: e-civil-ated
Sentence: He's been ecivilated for months now.
Etymology: electronic, civilization
Virtualocity
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: ver/tu/al/ah/si/ti
Sentence: She felt very comfortable in her virtualocity - the queen of all she surveyed
Etymology: virtual + virtuosity + city
Emmersed
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eee murst
Sentence: she became so Emmersed in her second life that she would have festered away altogether had her broadband coverage been anything as good as she was told it would be.
Etymology: immersed, e as in electronic
Interwed
Created by: marinus
Pronunciation: in-ter-wed
Sentence: There's no reason to be interwed to our forums all day. Please, go out and get some fresh air.
Etymology: internet + wed(ding)
Cyberspuck
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: SAHY - ber - spuhk
Sentence: Cory has been severely cyberspucked that he thinks that Mozilla Firefox is the name of his pet, his home is located at http://www.myspace.com/coryhome and that AOL is his Provider and his Father.
Etymology: cyberspace + suck (to draw in or be drawn in) + Spock from Star Trek (being technically proficient but socially conscious)
Cyberslump
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: sigh-bur-slump
Sentence: Peter was so drawn into his virtual world of gaming and blogging that he was largely oblivious to things happening in the outside world - he was in a cyberslump.
Etymology: cyber (internet ala William Gibson) + slump
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COMMENTS:
This made me LOL. - HubbMU, 2007-05-08: 10:11:00
Good one! It's what I'm in now!! - Stevenson0, 2007-05-08: 21:18:00
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Figmentity
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: fig MENT i tee
Sentence: Ava Tar ran an online business, ordered most things she needed on the Internet for home delivery, and "socialized" mostly with her online "friends," so she rarely left the house because she didn't need to. She existed mainly as a web-based figmentity. Unfortunately, she realized too late that her online "friends" couldn't help her with moving to her new apartment.
Etymology: figment + entity (being, existence, something or someone having a real existence)
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COMMENTS:
Love her name. too! - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 23:19:00
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Wippled
Created by: br0wn
Pronunciation: hwĭp'əld
Sentence: I can't go to the store because the (virtual world) has wippled me. This new fiber optic connection has turned me into a wipple.
Etymology: Web, cripple
Myspacize
Created by: mishmish
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I've been myspacized for weeks now
Etymology: my space, and space out, in a way
Digirot
Created by: Kurisu
Pronunciation: 'di-ji&-rät'
Sentence: I had all kinds or real world responsibilities, but chose instead to digirot.
Etymology: Digital: of, relating to, or being data in the form of especially binary digits + Rot: to cause to decompose or deteriorate with or as if with rot
Comments:
Today's definition was inspired by Cory Doctorow's short story "Anda's Game" which is published in Overclocked. It was also suggested by HubbMU.
Thank you Cory and HubbMU! ~ James
Weeklink rants again and uncovers a few lost words from last week's verbacious verbuttle. Read: The Cup of Verbotomy, Part Deux.
HubbMU - 2007-05-08: 10:08:00
Thanks for using my definition!
Thank you HubbMu. It's a great definition. A lot of people can relate to it -- especially if they are gamers or bloggers. ~ James
purpleartichokes - 2007-05-08: 12:52:00
Great to see all the new Verbotomists!
ECLUSIONIST is pretty good.
Today's definition was suggested by doctorow. Thank you doctorow. ~ James
cybersloth - 2010-01-02: 06:40:00
I would like to rebut your comments on the definition of cybersloth seen here (http://www.verbotomy.com/verbottle.php?jargonism_id=6790). 'cybersloth' is methodical and accurate, knows what move to make but it may take time. Not the friend of the impatient. From a theological view point I feel that you are free to think what you will about any subject; however you must be careful because all actions have consequences. Luckily I am not easily offended. I believe that I am not the only cybersloth, I may be the only one that is spelt exclusively with all lower case. By the way, I don’t use social networking sites and spend more time working on local resources both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’, if this does not make sense to you………. cybersloth. 02-01-2010