Verboticism: Camxiety
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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Scrutinanny
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: skroōtnanē
Sentence: The Wilsons originally installed their CCTV system as a security measure. They soon found that it was a way to keep tabs on their sometimes-too-active daughter. The system became a virtual scrutinanny. For some strange reason, their darling offspring couldn't wait to get out of the house each morning. Mom couldn't understand why she started referring to herself as an inmate.
Etymology: scrutiny (critical observation or examination) + Nanny (a person, typically a woman, employed to care for a child in its own home)
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COMMENTS:
No chance her becoming a screwtinanny then? love it! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-27: 05:16:00
Maybe it's time for the Super Scrutinanny? - readerwriter, 2009-02-27: 11:04:00
Ah ... even parents ... are becoming Big Brothers ... and your create is a perfect verbotomy for them! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:12:00
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Kintrusion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kin tru shun
Sentence: Mary's smart idea of getting an app that spied on her kids was great in theory. However, when you create that kind of a kintrusion, be careful what you wish for, because you might not like what you see, Mary...
Etymology: Kin (family) & Intrusion (invasion of privacy)
Orwellwellwellian
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: awr well well well eeeeean
Sentence: The GPS phone provided an orwellwellwellian moment or two as he cruised the seedier side of town in search of his soon-to-be-ex-fiance
Etymology: orwellian, well well well!
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COMMENTS:
So deeply deeply deeply and disturbingly terrorific create! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:02:00
love it - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-27: 14:23:00
Brilliant! LOL. Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1984. - GlobalGallery, 2009-02-27: 22:08:00
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Facespooked
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: fays-spookt
Sentence: Frank, was...well, frankly, freaked. Obviously, he hadn't thought through the consequences of who he accepted as friends on Facebook. And now, his English teacher from 8th grade was correcting his grammar! At 7.35AM that morning, to answer, "What are you doing right now?" Frank had said, "I can't get no satisfaction." By 7.37AM, Miss Primm had commented, "Frank, it is 'I can't get any satisfaction.' Remember our lessons on the double negative?" He was getting Facespooked!
Etymology: Playing on FACEBOOK + SPOOK, to haunt, scare, frighten
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COMMENTS:
-excellent word; LOL sentence! - splendiction, 2009-02-27: 18:40:00
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Eeksposure
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: eek-spoh-zher
Sentence: Joyce loves her devices but she is also afraid of the eeksposure they create. Thankfully her mom cannot even turn on the computer without help.
Etymology: e (electronic) + eek (sound of a squeak of fear) + exposure (disclosure, as of something private or secret)
Lifestalked
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: li + fs + talkd
Sentence: Jenny was beginning to feel lifestalked. While in her car, pictures were taken of her movements at traffic lights. The state traffic agency knew her movements on the highway. She was getting numerous recordings on her phone from her credit card companies and politicians. While in a store, there were security cameras watching. At work, her internet and email use was monitored......Her whole life was being watched and recorded....was there nowhere she could go?
Etymology: Life + stalked >> Life (the course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living) Stalked (Stalking is the obsessive following, observing, or contacting of another person, or the obsessive attempt to engage in any of these activities)
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COMMENTS:
Captures every part and nuance of the definition excellently, easily remembered, know right away what it means, plus it pack an emotional punch! A superb create! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:15:00
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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)
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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Demongrafixed
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: DEE-mun-GRAFF-ixed
Sentence: Polly was feeling violated lately. The used car she just bought was quickly accompanied by junk mail from the manufacturer, who got her name from DMV records. Microsoft rebooted her laptop whenever they saw fit, and her MySpace page was liberally sprinkled with ads for Frank Zappa merchandise ever since she included the keywords "wowie zowie" in a posting. Polly's vital stats were piling up somewhere in cyberspace, and she felt DEMONGRAFIXED as the rising tide of targeted junk mail clogged her rural delivery box. Finally she snapped and vowed to "get off the grid". She took her camerafone and laptop, living in her Yugo and seeking "hotspots" where she could compute for free. But "they" had her number, her GPS location, and Polly eventually descended into madness as the offers of "2weeks of free treatment" at Sunnyvale Psychiatric Institute continued to pop up on her screens and in her mind.
Etymology: DEMON+demoGRAPHICS+FIXED=DEMONGRAFIXED>DEMON:an evil spirit,a source or agent of evil, harm, distress, or ruin; Middle English demon, from Late Latin & Latin; Late Latin daemon evil spirit, from Latin, divinity, spirit, from Greek daimōn, probably from daiesthai to distribute.....DEMOGRAPHICS:the statistical characteristics of human populations (as age or income) used especially to identify markets.....FIX(fixed): to kill, harden, and preserve for microscopic study,to make a profitable determination of, to get ready or prepare,to get even with, to influence the actions, outcome, or effect of by IMPROPER or ILLEGAL methods;Middle English, from Latin fixus, past participle of figere to fasten; akin to Lithuanian dygti to sprout, break through.
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COMMENTS:
It's not easy to incorporate and give an old word 'fix' a new meaning ... but your erudite create ... did it exceedingly successfully! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:04:00
Thanks, Kiddo! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-27: 13:33:00
Metro, you have DEMONstrated your skills again! Bravo, Big Brother! - Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:08:00
Very good verboticism! Clever blend. - Mustang, 2009-02-28: 03:04:00
A most amusing diversion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA - metrohumanx, 2009-02-28: 10:59:00
LOL I love your sentence :) - abrakadeborah, 2009-03-25: 14:07:00
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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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