Verboticisms

Created by: spickaspanner

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Created by: angierox

Pronunciation: men synderome ish

Sentence: dont go all mensyndromish on me now

Etymology: angie

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Created by: ErWenn

Pronunciation: /'fol-tE-"task/

Sentence: Natasha liked to pretend that she could check her messages on her cell phone while listening to the lecture, but her teacher knew that she was merely faultitasking.

Etymology: From faulty + multitasking

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My teachers hate when I'm faultitasking. Thank goodness I have a laptop so they can't tell. I'm sure my marks would suffer if the knew... - wordmeister, 2007-01-11: 09:50:00

Trust me, they know. As a teacher, I can say that with confidence. What gets on teachers' nerves is not so much when you aren't paying attention but when you're being obvious about it. It's the same difference between trying not to get into a conversation with someone you don't like at a party and actively ignoring everything they say. - ErWenn, 2007-01-11: 20:17:00

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Created by: allwise

Pronunciation: con-ver-strac-shen

Sentence: While Kate attempted a conversation, Peter was watching TV, making it a more one-sided converstraction.

Etymology: conversation + distraction

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: mek kon ver say shun

Sentence: Gary always conducted a mechonversation with his wife...that way he could multitask and play some useful game while she nagged him about the time he wasted.

Etymology: Mechanized (the condition of having a highly technical implementation; the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware) & Conversation (the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.)

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Created by: egonschiela

Pronunciation: geek speek

Sentence: Maurice was frustrated by her interruptions and inability to understand his geekspeak, which to his mind was answering her questions perfectly.

Etymology: geek (computer buff) speak (talk)

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Created by: sodium

Pronunciation: tok-task

Sentence: Peter, addicted as he was to the Ernest movies, preferred to talktask while they were playing.

Etymology: talk + task to multitask, where one of the tasks is conversation

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Created by: Javeson1

Pronunciation: dull-strack-shun

Sentence: TV is the best dullstraction for any conversation, and computers come in second.

Etymology: distraction + dull (as in the conversation with the girl pictured at right)

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Personally, I find computers are a far more effective dullstraction, because if your dullstractor uses any big words, you can google them. - wordmeister, 2007-01-11: 09:45:00

hahah, that is very true. - Javeson1, 2007-01-19: 00:19:00

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: TEK-no-babl

Sentence: Lance is a techie dweeb and a social nerd so it just comes natural to him to sprinkle all kinds of technobabble in all of his conversations, a practice that really irritates his fiancé, Paula, as she is totally techno illiterate.

Etymology: Blend of 'technology' (the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life) and 'babble' (To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds)

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Created by: i5nizza

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