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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.
Verboticisms
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Obsessemail
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: ahb-SEHS-e-male
Sentence: Between Rhonda's chipped fingernails and Bret's carpal tunnel, you'd think they'd start arguing in person, and give up the obsessemail war. After all, they share an efficiency apartment.
Etymology: obsess + email
Tweetfreak
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: tweet - freek
Sentence: When I met Elijah, I knew there was something different about him. He seemed to be mute. If I asked him a question, he would smile and type. By the time I walked away, I had the answer on my Blackberry. Elijah had become a tweetfreak; he had apparantly decided he would rather twitter than talk.
Etymology: tweet (Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets), freak (addict: someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction)
Enal
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: e/nal
Sentence: To cover his ass and reassure himself he has told everybody everything he should and covered all his bases, my boss e-mails everything instead of speaking any more. He's totally enal.
Etymology: e-mail + anal
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COMMENTS:
nice. - galwaywegian, 2007-03-06: 07:05:00
good one - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-06: 10:16:00
short, sweet and clear. here's my vote. - w5lf9s, 2007-03-06: 13:08:00
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Depenmail
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: di/pun/mail
Sentence: He is a depenmail... just look at him typing!
Etymology: Dependece + email. For an obscure reason it made me think of "lolicon" so i put it as a noun even though i wanted to put it as a verb...
Eyembrainosis
Created by: bettyann9
Pronunciation: Eye-em-brane-ose-is
Sentence: Overuse of Yahoo messenger can lead to severe eyembrainosis. The only known treatment is removal from the computer area and forced conversation with strangers in line at the supermarket.
Etymology: IM (instant messaging)+ brain (brain) + osis (a diseased or abnormal condition)
Machooked
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: mac + hooked
Sentence: They were so machooked that they would chat on and on without ever saying a word to each other, despite being in the same room.
Etymology: You've heard of a Macbook, right? Right.
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:
Instantity
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: in-stan-i-tee
Sentence: When I was first diagnosed with instantity, I couldn't wait to email the guy next to me all about it.
Etymology: instant + insanity
Elemesniac
Created by: Ahmad
Pronunciation: el-mis-ne-ac
Sentence: He is always busy with sending emails and messages to his buddies , he seems a real elemesniac.
Etymology: ele = electronic , mes = messaging , niac = maniac
Egomail
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: eego-male
Sentence: Please! Don't feed the egomails! Use your voice!
Etymology: email+ego (which you are feeding by doing this...)
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