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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.

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Painvention

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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Frustvation

Created by: jousakkem

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

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Hardwhere

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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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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Unworkything

Created by: StigAllan

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

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Invistaquacy

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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Repetativeslack

Created by: mandapanda

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Windowsvista

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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