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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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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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Facespooked
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: fays-spookt
Sentence: Frank, was...well, frankly, freaked. Obviously, he hadn't thought through the consequences of who he accepted as friends on Facebook. And now, his English teacher from 8th grade was correcting his grammar! At 7.35AM that morning, to answer, "What are you doing right now?" Frank had said, "I can't get no satisfaction." By 7.37AM, Miss Primm had commented, "Frank, it is 'I can't get any satisfaction.' Remember our lessons on the double negative?" He was getting Facespooked!
Etymology: Playing on FACEBOOK + SPOOK, to haunt, scare, frighten
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COMMENTS:
-excellent word; LOL sentence! - splendiction, 2009-02-27: 18:40:00
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Lifestalked
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: li + fs + talkd
Sentence: Jenny was beginning to feel lifestalked. While in her car, pictures were taken of her movements at traffic lights. The state traffic agency knew her movements on the highway. She was getting numerous recordings on her phone from her credit card companies and politicians. While in a store, there were security cameras watching. At work, her internet and email use was monitored......Her whole life was being watched and recorded....was there nowhere she could go?
Etymology: Life + stalked >> Life (the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living) Stalked (Stalking is the obsessive following, observing, or contacting of another person, or the obsessive attempt to engage in any of these activities)
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COMMENTS:
Captures every part and nuance of the definition excellently, easily remembered, know right away what it means, plus it pack an emotional punch! A superb create! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:15:00
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Etrusion
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: e/tru/sion
Sentence: With all the technological advances i our world, the e-trusion into our lives gives us no sense of privacy any longer.
Etymology: E-TRUSION - noun - from E(electronic) + INTURSION (the forcing into a place without right, or welcome; encroachment)
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COMMENTS:
Short, to the point, meaning readily apparent. refreshingly different - an E-winner! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:06:00
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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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Snowdonder
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: snow dun dur
Sentence: The government are Snowonder with details of our lives
Etymology: Snowdon, snowed under
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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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
Trackberry
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: trakberē
Sentence: Rosie is more than happy with her trackberry and it’s ability to tell her how to not get lost. The GPS function can even tell her where to get a tasty eclair. Friends can track her whereabouts and meet up at a moment’s notice. She discovered its drawback the other day when she was about to give in to the urge for sweets and received a veto text from her mom. She now parks her SPiPHONE with a friend at the local health food store before heading to the pastry shop.
Etymology: track (follow the course or trail of someone or something) + Blackberry (brand of wireless phone/e-mail device)
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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