Verboticisms

Created by: leaffan001

Pronunciation: gu-gol-o-shis

Sentence: Dependance on search sites.

Etymology: From the web site google.

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Good Word - leaffan001, 2007-07-19: 19:39:00

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: ill-in-vent-o-rat

Sentence: Billy's ilinventoracy hindered his career plans to become a search engine programmer.

Etymology: il (as in illiterate) + inventory

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Created by: penguinssean

Pronunciation: poo-po-do-do

Sentence: a dog took a poopododo

Etymology:

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: dat/a/dic/tion

Sentence: It is not difficult to odour out those suffering from dataddiction. They are usually wearing smelly socks and dirty underwear.

Etymology: data + addiction

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Created by: irminem

Pronunciation: dys-goo-gli-ah

Sentence: Chris suffers from dysgooglia; he is unable to perform any basic task that does not involve the use of the computer to assist him.

Etymology: dys- from dysfunctional + googlia- from google

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: dot/compromized

Sentence: He was so dotcompromised that he couldn't function at all without being hooked up to his umbilical mouse.

Etymology: dot com + compromise

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: in/lap/ti/tude

Sentence: Chris' inlaptitude at sorting socks resulted from leaving his laptop at the office.

Etymology: ineptitude + lap top

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Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: sigh-burr-space-E

Sentence: Since being diagniosed as cyberspacy, John has begun riding his bike to work because keys are "too much responsibility." He's also given up on the sock thing and only wears sandals. Even then, he's been seen barefoot, one shoe in-hand and searching for the other.

Etymology: "cyber" for the tech dependency + "spacey" for the absentmindedness, also the play on "cyberspace"

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COMMENTS:

Is that Kevin Spacey's brother? - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-19: 12:41:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: dawg-pi-uhled

Sentence: He had Googled, Yahooed, MSN'd, and Asked Jeeves, but he was dogpiled and still couldn't figure out which slot in the drawer the spoons went.

Etymology: Dogpile "All the best search engines piled into one."; dog pile - what my mother used to call my bed

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COMMENTS:

One can only imagine why your bed was called a "dog pile" ;) - ziggy41, 2007-07-19: 04:49:00

hehe! - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-19: 06:51:00

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Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: yah umm

Sentence: “Where is Tiberius? Where is he?” Julius exclaimed. The makeshift portable canopy from umbrellas and duct protected the penguin he was holding from the harsh morning sun. They new taking this long to load them into the truck would be trouble. “Christ, I’m holding him here, you yahumm. Your wikipenguina is of no help, eh?”

Etymology: yahoo (person and service) + umm

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COMMENTS:

this whole continuous story writing thing has been an interesting experience. i'll probably talk about it in depth this weekend on tomorrow's word. man, i never realized how much i could enjoy it, though. - jadenguy, 2007-07-19: 11:29:00

we're enjoying it too jadenguy - now I know what the umbrellas are for - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-19: 11:54:00

But what ever happened to the farmer's daughter? - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-19: 13:50:00

hopefully tomorrow's word will lead me in that direction? - jadenguy, 2007-07-19: 15:10:00

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