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DEFINITION: A technological innovation that doesn't work as expected because "normal people" can't figure out how to use it.
Verboticisms
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Chagrinnovation
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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Unvention
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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Brokethrough
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"
Techolera
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.
Compfusion
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
Technobscure
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
Misnology
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
Techtard
Created by: japfilsk8er
Pronunciation: tech-tard
Sentence: confuse on how a device is used.
Etymology: technology , and being dumb, retard
Friggen
Created by: azaria202
Pronunciation: Frig-gen
Sentence: You friggen person.
Etymology: another word for fucking
Comments:
enatefox - 2007-09-17: 11:01:00
neurotypicalastize