Verboticisms

Created by: gabioace

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: IM-dependency

Sentence: Bill's impediment to social interaction was his imdependency. It got so bad that even when he locked away his laptop, he kept throwing LOLs and BTWs into the conversation.

Etymology: IM (instant messaging) + dependency

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Created by: earljw

Pronunciation: con-ver-i-va-cee

Sentence: I want to talk to some of my co-workers, but don't want the others to hear. So one of my colleagues and I engage in converivacy.

Etymology: conversation + privacy

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Created by: greystarling

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Sentence: Man, I gotta cure me of this eddiction, it's getting out of hand - I'm checking my email in my sleep!

Etymology: compound noun from "e" of electronic (eg. email, ebook), and "addiction"

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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: Poeiden

Pronunciation: free-ko-mai-lo-gy

Sentence: Bob the computer technician suffers from an occupational hazard of freakomailogy.

Etymology: freak + mail +psychoLOGY

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Created by: qcpbraca

Pronunciation: Tech-no-pend

Sentence: He is such a technopend, he just simply can't leave his computer when we are about to go out, he always say "just one minute more, i need to read this email"

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Created by: TehRussians

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Created by: Neej13

Pronunciation: TEK-no-sloth

Sentence: A true technosloth, Barry preferred to email his cubicle neighbor about whether he'd attend today's meeting, rather than respond directly.

Etymology: Technology + sloth

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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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