Verboticism: Scareveillance
DEFINITION: n. The uneasy comfort that comes from knowing that your family, your friends, the police, the taxman, and every marketer in the world, are using the newest technology track your every move. v. To lose your privacy due to technology.
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Scareveillance
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: scair-VAYL-ehns
Sentence: At first Wilhelmena found the constant scrutiny of her whereabouts and activities to be comforting but as she found it to be more and more intrusive she became somewhat paranoid and began to refer to it as scareveillance, and wished she knew how to put an end to it.
Etymology: Blend of 'scare' (frighten) and 'surveillance' (The act of observing or the condition of being observed)
Entrusion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: en troo sjun
Sentence: In an effort to keep their family safe, Henry and Marcia had installed high-tech, state of the art handheld surveillance devices. Although they thought this answered their fears, they did not realize that this entrusion applied to their daughter's love-life and they now knew way more than they wanted to...
Etymology: Engineering (the practical application of science to commerce or industry) & Intrusion (entrance by force or without permission or welcome)
Perveasivecomputing
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: pervasive computing
Sentence: I feel so much safer, yet somehow exposed with all the perveasivecomputing keeping track of me.
Etymology: perve (to spy on) + pervasive computing (technology everywhere)
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COMMENTS:
short sentence but so powerful! Plus a perve-ectly great verbotomy! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:23:00
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Trackberry
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: trakberē
Sentence: Rosie is more than happy with her trackberry and it’s ability to tell her how to not get lost. The GPS function can even tell her where to get a tasty eclair. Friends can track her whereabouts and meet up at a moment’s notice. She discovered its drawback the other day when she was about to give in to the urge for sweets and received a veto text from her mom. She now parks her SPiPHONE with a friend at the local health food store before heading to the pastry shop.
Etymology: track (follow the course or trail of someone or something) + Blackberry (brand of wireless phone/e-mail device)
Innovasion
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: IN no VA zheun
Sentence: At my office we have an innovasion problem. There is a camera so that my boss can monitor us to make sure we are working; a software program that sends alerts if we go on any personal kinds of websites; a sensor beeper that goes off if we stand by the coffee maker more than fifteen minutes (our allotted break); and now he has installed a siren that will blare if the bathroom door is not reopened within ten minutes of someone entering the bathroom. Where is the trust?
Etymology: INNOVATION: introduction of new ideas or methods INVASION: to encroach or intrude on; to overrun
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COMMENTS:
admire the subtle no-know in the middle of both etymology words, but especially in your verbotomy. Super word play, too! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:27:00
super word - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-27: 14:22:00
We trade off personal privacy for technological advancement, don't we??? Great word, kate! - Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:04:00
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Spwatchandspontroll
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: spwach and spun troll
Sentence: With satellites, the internet, unseen cameras evgerywhere including in cell phones, military stealth systems and weapons, and business tracking networks that not only track people, but what they buy, where they go, what they do, and how often ... George Orwell's famous prediction "Big Brother is watching you" is true. However, George missed the mark by thinking it was only the governments of the nations of the world who are the Big Brothers watching you. Nor is it just, the military mights with stealth systems and spy weapons, of all the nations of the world! Perhaps it is not the nation, who seems to say and do much, but the nation that silently watches, and capitalizes on the knowledge they gain from watching, who does the most. But this distracts us from the even bigger Big Brothers! Perhaps it is not the goverments and militaries, of the nations of the world, who are the Biggest Brothers ... could it be the cor-pore-over-U-ations and business car-tells ... those inter-netting-U billionaires ... those oil-slickering-U billionaires ... or the health care and drug-U billionaires who have the greatest leverage, your health, to care-4-U like hostages in hospitals ... et cetera? You get the idea. What about the not-so-legal drug and sex billionaires? The more things change, the more they stay the same. The most Powerful and Biggest Brothers of all, are those with the most money. Those who most cleverly spwatchandspontroll, are those biggest business trillionaires!
Etymology: SPY WATCH AND SPY CONTROL = SPWATCH AND SPONTROLL is a play on ROCK AND ROLL. Both are different ways to rock the world and roll over it.
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COMMENTS:
scary musings silvery - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-27: 14:25:00
Amen...feel the same... - Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:22:00
Wow! Awesome. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-02: 06:13:00
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Trackiphobia
Created by: Mathiu
Pronunciation: tre-ki-fow-bee-ah
Sentence:
Etymology: Track-phobia
Snoopsyology
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: snoop see o lo gy
Sentence: The trusted Dr. C Awl’s latest podcast of his students’ latest studies into what people do when they think nobody’s looking reached a conclusion that privacy no longer exists. Further research by the observed snoopsyologist will undoubtedly uncover even less about what we already know, or want to know, about people we don’t know. Dr. C. Awl does contend thick presence of various forms of surveillance will eliminate “gossip”, or “hearsay” as well as “curiosity” as eventually all will be heard and seen by all. The only really safe people will be the deaf and blind.
Etymology: From snoop (to spy on) and "ology" (any branch of knowledge or a science.)
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COMMENTS:
Dr. C Awl, snoopsyologist, was a great create! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-28: 16:09:00
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Orwellwellwell
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: orr well well well
Sentence: their orwellian moment became an Orwellwellwellian moment when the caught their neighbours perverted activities on google earth.
Etymology: Orwell, well,well,well,
Scareveillance
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: scair-VAYL-ehns
Sentence: At first Harriet found the constant scrutiny of her whereabouts and activities to be comforting but as she found it to be more and more intrusive she became somewhat paranoid and began to refer to it as scareveillance, and wished she knew how to put an end to it.
Etymology: Blend of 'scare' (frighten) and 'surveillance' (The act of observing or the condition of being observed)
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COMMENTS:
Frightfully great create! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:00:00
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-27: 14:25:00
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