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DEFINITION: n. The uneasy comfort that comes from knowing that your family, your friends, the police, the taxman, and every marketer in the world, are using the newest technology track your every move. v. To lose your privacy due to technology.
Verboticisms
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Orwellwellwell
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: orr well well well
Sentence: their orwellian moment became an Orwellwellwellian moment when the caught their neighbours perverted activities on google earth.
Etymology: Orwell, well,well,well,
Demongrafixed
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: DEE-mun-GRAFF-ixed
Sentence: Polly was feeling violated lately. The used car she just bought was quickly accompanied by junk mail from the manufacturer, who got her name from DMV records. Microsoft rebooted her laptop whenever they saw fit, and her MySpace page was liberally sprinkled with ads for Frank Zappa merchandise ever since she included the keywords "wowie zowie" in a posting. Polly's vital stats were piling up somewhere in cyberspace, and she felt DEMONGRAFIXED as the rising tide of targeted junk mail clogged her rural delivery box. Finally she snapped and vowed to "get off the grid". She took her camerafone and laptop, living in her Yugo and seeking "hotspots" where she could compute for free. But "they" had her number, her GPS location, and Polly eventually descended into madness as the offers of "2weeks of free treatment" at Sunnyvale Psychiatric Institute continued to pop up on her screens and in her mind.
Etymology: DEMON+demoGRAPHICS+FIXED=DEMONGRAFIXED>DEMON:an evil spirit,a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin; Middle English demon, from Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin daemon evil spirit, from Latin, divinity, spirit, from Greek daimōn, probably from daiesthai to distribute.....DEMOGRAPHICS:the statistical characteristics of human populations (as age or income) used especially to identify markets.....FIX(fixed): to kill, harden, and preserve for microscopic study,to make a profitable determination of, to get ready or prepare,to get even with, to influence the actions, outcome, or effect of by IMPROPER or ILLEGAL methods;Middle English, from Latin fixus, past participle of figere to fasten; akin to Lithuanian dygti to sprout, break through.
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COMMENTS:
It's not easy to incorporate and give an old word 'fix' a new meaning ... but your erudite create ... did it exceedingly successfully! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:04:00
Thanks, Kiddo! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-27: 13:33:00
Metro, you have DEMONstrated your skills again! Bravo, Big Brother! - Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:08:00
Very good verboticism! Clever blend. - Mustang, 2009-02-28: 03:04:00
A most amusing diversion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA - metrohumanx, 2009-02-28: 10:59:00
LOL I love your sentence :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-25: 14:07:00
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Techsposed
Created by: GlobalGallery
Pronunciation: tek-spozed
Sentence: Sam made a good living counting cards. All the Pit Bosses in Vegas knew him well so he had to disguise his face. Dressed as an Ultra-Orthodox Jew with hat, beard, sidelocks, and glasses, he managed to avoid detection from the biometric face-scanning surveillace cameras. What Sam didn't count on was the new addition to the table; the high denomination chip fingerprint scanner. Soon he was techsposed and the casino goons were making a beeline for his table.
Etymology: 1.tech - abbreviation for technology. 2.exposed - revealed or laid open to view.
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COMMENTS:
good one! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-27: 05:16:00
Super Snooper Duper sentence and word! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:43:00
All bets are now off... - Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:14:00
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Kintrusion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kin tru shun
Sentence: Mary's smart idea of getting an app that spied on her kids was great in theory. However, when you create that kind of a kintrusion, be careful what you wish for, because you might not like what you see, Mary...
Etymology: Kin (family) & Intrusion (invasion of privacy)
Tracknowledgy
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: trak/nol/ed/gee
Sentence: The lastest tracknowledgy elicits extreme anxiety as well as solace when you realize that Big Brother is riding piggyback wherever you go.
Etymology: track + knowledge + edgy + technology
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COMMENTS:
Your creative puns always amaze me ... but this one is especially excellent! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:17:00
Touche, jw...Big Brother has tons of siblings! - Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:10:00
Excellent - TJayzz, 2009-02-28: 13:19:00
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Orwellwellwellian
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: awr well well well eeeeean
Sentence: The GPS phone provided an orwellwellwellian moment or two as he cruised the seedier side of town in search of his soon-to-be-ex-fiance
Etymology: orwellian, well well well!
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COMMENTS:
So deeply deeply deeply and disturbingly terrorific create! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:02:00
love it - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-27: 14:23:00
Brilliant! LOL. Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1984. - GlobalGallery, 2009-02-27: 22:08:00
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Snoopsyology
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: snoop see o lo gy
Sentence: The trusted Dr. C Awl’s latest podcast of his students’ latest studies into what people do when they think nobody’s looking reached a conclusion that privacy no longer exists. Further research by the observed snoopsyologist will undoubtedly uncover even less about what we already know, or want to know, about people we don’t know. Dr. C. Awl does contend thick presence of various forms of surveillance will eliminate “gossip”, or “hearsay” as well as “curiosity” as eventually all will be heard and seen by all. The only really safe people will be the deaf and blind.
Etymology: From snoop (to spy on) and "ology" (any branch of knowledge or a science.)
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COMMENTS:
Dr. C Awl, snoopsyologist, was a great create! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-28: 16:09:00
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Digitabs
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: dih-jih-tabs
Sentence: The only way anyone would know about my brass instrument fetish is if they were keeping digitabs on me.
Etymology: to keep tabs on someone + digital
Entrusion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: en troo sjun
Sentence: In an effort to keep their family safe, Henry and Marcia had installed high-tech, state of the art handheld surveillance devices. Although they thought this answered their fears, they did not realize that this entrusion applied to their daughter's love-life and they now knew way more than they wanted to...
Etymology: Engineering (the practical application of science to commerce or industry) & Intrusion (entrance by force or without permission or welcome)
Bigbrotherbustedya
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: big-broth-er-busted-ya
Sentence: Crystal knew there were video cameras watching her yet,she forgot as her boyfriend Romeo went in for the big first kiss. The next thing she knew loud horns started blowing and the lights brightened and flickered on and off! Her Dad Henry walked in and said,"Crystal I told you I had the security company come in...so now you can't get away with having boys over because the surveilance system has a feature that sounds alarms when "Bigbrotherbustedya" motion detetectors go off" YOU are grounded!
Etymology: Big Brother;The surveillance cameras that watch everything you do...Busted;Got caught! Ya;YOU.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2009-02-27: 10:50:00
WOW! Everyone created a first rate verbotomy! You have my admiration and awe every day, but even more so today!
silveryaspen - 2009-02-27: 10:52:00
I'd vote for every verbotomy today if I could!
silveryaspen - 2009-02-27: 10:59:00
It's also great to see more verbotomists submitting definitions for James and all of us! They are the lifeblood of this game. Which is more challenging: to creat a definition or create a verbotomy?
readerwriter - 2009-02-27: 11:08:00
Maybe that should be a definition, eh? Noun: the anxiety caused by the challenge of whether to create a definition or a verbotomy
silveryaspen - 2009-02-27: 11:21:00
Now all you have to do is submit it in the right place, readerwriter!
splendiction - 2009-02-27: 18:36:00
I'm going to need a lobotomy from my verbotomy at this rate!
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
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