Verboticisms

Created by: thesteviest

Pronunciation: in-ter-ne-PEN-dent

Sentence: Internepents Anonymous first step is to take a group of people and their lap tops out of the same room and make them converse through instant messaging from different rooms.

Etymology: internet and dependent

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Created by: srjones

Pronunciation: deft-mute-izm

Sentence: We don't talk anymore just chat due to his deftmutism.

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Created by: DrHarvey

Pronunciation: Ass-key-fill-eya

Sentence: I've managed to impress the girl across from me at the library - I think - though our relationship is purely asciphilic.

Etymology: 'Ascii' - form of digital text or code '-philia' - from the Greek 'to love'

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Created by: BobHowell

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Created by: lvinning

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Created by: Mandalay

Pronunciation: iTard. As in iPod.

Sentence: You are such an iTard, completely useless without technology.

Etymology: iPods, iPhones, iBooks. The Apple range of portable technology. Tard is slang for retard or someone with retardation in my area.

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Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: ee-lehk-TRAHKS-sihm-muht

Sentence: Alex vainly carried on an electroximate relationship with the woman in the next cubicle. He did wonder why she never returned his IMs, though he knew she was at her desk.

Etymology: electronic + proximate (nearby)

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Created by: alabaster

Pronunciation: Wanna cyber

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Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: Ya-who-four-ee-ya

Sentence: Dennis spent most of his day in a state of Yahoophoria, compulsively chacking his email and im-ing his cubicle mate.

Etymology: Yahoo (email, IM service) and euphoria

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Created by: Tesher

Pronunciation: e-pen-dent

Sentence: Adam is completely ependent. He even sends text messages to his girlfriend while they are making out.

Etymology: Electronic (abbreviated as 'E') - dependent (may be varied to -dant for the British)

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