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DEFINITION: n. A psychological dependency on electronic messaging which often leads to compulsive emailing, even among people who are sitting inches apart. v. To email, twitter, or text compulsively.
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Textaholic
Created by: sonic101
Pronunciation: text-a-hol-ic
Sentence: James is such a textaholic, he emails his order at Starbucks while standing in line.
Etymology:
Obsessamessage
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Did you get my message? Stop obsessamessage-ing it.
Etymology: obsessive messageing
Emittle
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: e-mit-tel
Sentence: I started to emittle a little, then I started to emittle a lot. My girlfriend doesn't like much...
Etymology: emit+email
Textopathy
Created by: Shellbow
Pronunciation: teks-TAW-path-ee
Sentence: He suffered so severely from textopathy that the joints in both of his thumbs were permanently inflamed.
Etymology: Text (to send text messages) + pathy (a disease of, or abnormality)
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COMMENTS:
This is much better for me than watching reruns of The Big Bang Theory. - Shellbow, 2013-11-01: 23:18:00
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Fanatitexting
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: fənatitekstng
Sentence: William’s mother is glad she took the protection plan when she bought his phone. He has worn out numerous models fanatitexting his friends for hours at a time. He usually wears the printed letters off of the keypad shortly before the overheated electronics literally blow up.
Etymology: fanatic (a person filled with excessive and single-minded zeal) + texting (an electronic communication sent and received by cellular phone)
Techaddiction
Created by: lalaland6868
Pronunciation: Teck-Ah-Dick-shun
Sentence: Techaddiction is feared by most because it is believed to be taking over the next generation.
Etymology: Tech-technology Addiction- a strong attraction to.
Eddiction
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: e-dict-shun
Sentence: My boss's eddiction is even worse since he got his crackberry, now when we talk about Blackberry and Apple crumble he thinks there's been a collapse in the computer industry.
Etymology: addiction (physical dependence) + e (short for electronic)
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COMMENTS:
great sentence - fantastic word - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-06: 10:15:00
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Commpulsion
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kom puhlll shun
Sentence: Harry the commpulsive comms wizard told his fluffy white owl his message carrying services would no longer be required since the arrival of twitter. Twitt? to who? his feathered ex-friend hooted
Etymology: communications, compulsion
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COMMENTS:
What a hoot...owl like it! - Nosila, 2009-09-23: 10:36:00
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Laptoplove
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: lap/top/luv
Sentence: Laptoplove is a marriage made in cyber space
Etymology: lap top + love
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Antimus.
Thank you Antimus! ~ James
Osomatic - 2007-03-09: 17:48:00
You know what's creepy that I didn't notice before now? The guy in this cartoon kinda looks like me.
Osomatic - 2007-03-09: 17:48:00
Kinda.
Today's definition was suggested by Antimus. Thank you Antimus. ~ James
Glad to see that everyone is talking with their fingers! Jasper Fforde certainly does it. And I was at a talk last night by August de los Reyes, creative director at Microsoft Surface, where they are designing a touch interface for the next generation computers. He says we are moving closer and closer to immateriality. I think that means fiction is becoming reality. That's we need people like Thursday Next -- Special Operatives in Jurisfiction -- to keep the story straight. ~ James