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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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Wrecknology
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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Shlupgrade
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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Ohnovation
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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Cryptprogram
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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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"
Unworkything
Created by: StigAllan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Why can´t people create normal things and not such unworkythings.
Etymology:
Inscrutivation
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
Comments:
enatefox - 2007-09-17: 11:01:00
neurotypicalastize