Verboticisms

Created by: skeeterzirra

Pronunciation: miss now loh zhe

Sentence: He said that it is foolproof, but that he underestimated the inventiveness of fools, but only one ubergeek has managed to figure it out.

Etymology: Mistaken technology

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Created by: Hyperion

Pronunciation: In/con/fay/tion.

Sentence: Joe Smith felt immense frustration at the inconfational vehicle, which had mysteriously started to dance and was beginning to serve his neighbours drinks- with him inside. It asked for requests. One, unfortunately, was a giant cocktail. Using its inbuilt mixing system, it began... The interior was waterproof. Joe, however, wasn't.

Etymology: It's a confusing innovation. What's to etymologise?

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: kript/pro/gram

Sentence: The newest version of cardscam was such a crytprogram that even the cards couldn't understand it

Etymology: cryptogram (obscure puzzle) + program (as in computer)

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COMMENTS:

The crypt keeper has a winner! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 10:29:00

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Created by: frenchprof

Pronunciation: tek cholera

Sentence: Tech Persons infected with techolera have massive logorehea.

Etymology: du vieux francais, bilieux, se faire de la bile.

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Created by: japfilsk8er

Pronunciation: tech-tard

Sentence: confuse on how a device is used.

Etymology: technology , and being dumb, retard

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: mek/an/skis/im

Sentence: Mechanschisms will be the downfall of social interaction.

Etymology: mechanism + schism

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COMMENTS:

Creative! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 10:42:00

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Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: pain + ven + shun

Sentence: This fancy-new phone is supposed to do everything, but it's such a painvention that I can't figure out how to make it do anything.

Etymology: pain + invention

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Created by: Scrumpy

Pronunciation: krap-uh-rat-us

Sentence: The new toaster was such a piece of crapparatus that we couldn't even figure out where to put the toast in.

Etymology: crap + apparatus

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COMMENTS:

great! - galwaywegian, 2007-09-14: 07:28:00

that's fun to say. I'm going to adopt this into my daily lexicon. - younger, 2007-09-14: 09:30:00

very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 10:16:00

Love it! - purpleartichokes, 2007-09-14: 10:50:00

Hilarious. Voting now. - ScrabbledEgg, 2007-09-14: 23:41:00

I toast you: great word. But remember toast is the strangest of all foods: it is eaten in the morning and drunk at night! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-15: 18:27:00

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Created by: Syzygy

Pronunciation: in-skrew-ti-call

Sentence: After looping through the automated menus, Kip declaired the attempt an inscruticall.

Etymology: Insruitable and Call

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Created by: jayre

Pronunciation: MIS-tech

Sentence: A mystech happened when the company replaced all the keyed door entries with numeric PIN pads.

Etymology: mystery + technology + misstep

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Created by: phonematode

Pronunciation: shu/grin/oh/vay/shun

Sentence:

Etymology: chagrin + innovation

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COMMENTS:

Good blend. With some good cognates possible such as chagrinnova, chagrinnovati. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-15: 18:35:00

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Created by: chalkdrinker

Pronunciation: rek-nall-oh-jee

Sentence: if it's such a great piece of wrecknology, why is the manual over 200 pages?

Etymology: Wreck, technology

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COMMENTS:

Good one! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 12:34:00

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Created by: Nettle

Pronunciation: in-skru-ti-VAY-shun

Sentence: Martin encountered the familiar feeling of frustration while trying to cope with the inscrutivative new version of Windows.

Etymology: inscrutable + innovation

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Created by: whirredup

Pronunciation: broek-throo

Sentence: After recording the wrong show 3 weeks in a row, she marveled at her fancy DVR's oft-cited brokethrough technology.

Etymology: breakthrough, as in "technological breakthrough"; + broke, as in "this shit doesn't work"

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: hard-ware

Sentence: A gazillion pieces of hardwhere had been shifted in the Christmas shopping spree. By 10.00am the next shopping day, the support lines were jammed by callers trying to work out how the coaxial cable was supposed to connect to the 12 pin outlet behind the doodad.

Etymology: hardware + hard (difficult) + where (as in where the heck does this cable go?)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: in/vis/tah/kwa/see

Sentence: Windows has come out with the latest invistaquacy. The user must have at least an information technology degree to download the manual.

Etymology: vista + inadequacy

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Created by: VersaVice

Pronunciation: fee-terd

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Etymology: feature + turd

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Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: comp-few-shun

Sentence: even things like floppy discs gave him compfusion. "where was that dang little switch for unlocking it?"

Etymology: computer + confusion

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Created by: jousakkem

Pronunciation:

Sentence: It's just an other frustvation to help our life.

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Created by: azaria202

Pronunciation: Frig-gen

Sentence: You friggen person.

Etymology: another word for fucking

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: shh lupp grey d

Sentence: every shlupgrade was supposed to make him feel more empowered, but ended up making feel he had slipped a couple of rungs further down the evolutionary ladder.

Etymology: upgrade, shlupp

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COMMENTS:

nice to have your sense of humour back in the game - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 10:15:00

I like it! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 10:46:00

It's enough to make anyone feel greyed out. - petaj, 2007-09-15: 01:31:00

Perhaps Darwin didnt go far enough: some members of our species may have started on the way back! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-15: 18:44:00

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Created by: StigAllan

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Why can´t people create normal things and not such unworkythings.

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Created by: centuryretrotv

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Created by: ScrabbledEgg

Pronunciation: oh-noe-vay-shun

Sentence: Their last software release was the most ohnovative offering yet: simply chock a block with ohnovations! Please, kill me before any more ohnovating goes on.

Etymology: Oh no! (as in "Oh no!, That's not what I frickin' wanted", or "Oh. no. you. didn't.") + innovation

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COMMENTS:

nice one. - galwaywegian, 2007-09-14: 07:29:00

it sounds like Mr. Bill from old Saturday Night Live skits ("Oh no!!) - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 14:54:00

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Created by: mandapanda

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: tek-NOB-skyur

Sentence: Will 's VCR constantly blinked 12:00 because it was too technobscure for him to change. Besides, he kind of liked the way it blinked in time to the music.

Etymology: Tech + Nob (elite) + Obscure

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Created by: graypenguin

Pronunciation: win-doze-vis-ta

Sentence: He was so happy to get his new PC only to realize that it had windows vista on it and it crashed 4 timed and installed 100 updates before he could use it.

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: no-Ver-welm

Sentence: When a packet of "smart dust", along with an instructional manual to rival "War and Peace," arrived at Bob's home he thought that he was about to be at the forefront of technological innovation. But after an hour of technolunacy trying to figure out how to apply the dust to make his house environmentally friendly, Bob started banging his avanthard head against a wall. Finally, reluctantly and noverwhelmed, he switched the vacuum cleaner on, and started sucking up this technoxious nanotechinanity.

Etymology: Blend of Nov(L):new & overwhelm: render helpless

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I really like nanotechnicanity - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 12:53:00

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Created by: gplowell

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This one cracks me up! - ScrabbledEgg, 2007-09-14: 23:43:00

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: tek-nall-oh-cheez

Sentence: I was sucked in by another infomercial and ended up with a $50 piece of technolocheese.

Etymology: technology, cheese (as in cheesy, chintzy)

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Very Gouda! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 10:43:00

cheez whiz purple - this is tough but how's this for your Friday jingle - I goudave danced all night - I goudave danced all night and stilton begged for more... - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 10:45:00

Aw cheese, now I'm hungry AND have a show tune stuck in my head! - purpleartichokes, 2007-09-14: 10:50:00

Pretty cheesy, but I'm a sucker for Cheesies while screwing up my computer so I can certainly relate and vote for your word!!! - Stevenson0, 2007-09-14: 12:50:00

Sounds like she paid a mozza, Ella, for that technolocheese. Reggie Arno is a sucker for these kinds of things too. Don't roquefort, don't roquefort baby. Don't roquefort, don't dip the ricotta. - petaj, 2007-09-15: 01:29:00

That often happens to me too Purp. But don't tell me "cheese and kisses!" - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-15: 18:48:00

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: gli-tek-noh-vay-shun

Sentence: The entire process in learning the new phone system soon became an exercise in patience. The obvious glitechnovation made her want to stick pins in her eyes.

Etymology: glitch + techno combined

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Created by: younger

Pronunciation: UN-VEN-SHUN

Sentence: The device caused more headaches than solutions, hence it's nomination for the unvention of the year.

Etymology: Un + Invention More than just the opposite of an invention - in undoes what it is designed to do.

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COMMENTS:

Prefixtion! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 11:02:00

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