Verboticism: Copytat
DEFINITION: v. To copy and share an idea, thing, or person because you think that it's so wonderful that everyone should have one. n. An open source clone.
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Porkbomb
Created by: 0xdeadbeef
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Market-terrorists porkbombed the student protest with free samples of smart drinks and soy snacks, infecting the naive who didn't read the retrovirally-enforced brand loyalty EULAs.
Etymology: from forkbomb - the catastrophic cloning of software processes, and the supposed main ingredient of Spam
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COMMENTS:
Oh noes! It won't let me submit another one! I thought of another one that skirts the definition a little. This one is limited to the sweet old ladies in your life as they discover the internet: gramspam - Deleting "Footprints", "sick kid wants cards", and "scary urban legend" for the n-millionth time, Oswald grimaces at "Otters holding hands", dreading the coming deluge of YouTube inspired gramspam. - 0xdeadbeef, 2007-05-08: 02:43:00
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Copyousness
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: copy/us/ness
Sentence: Sam was a legend for his copyousness proclivity. He built a fortress around his cubicle with his favourite photocopies.
Etymology: copiousness(ample) + copy + us
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COMMENTS:
Welcome back, Jabberwocky! - Nosila, 2009-11-24: 01:14:00
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Shanger
Created by: mikebezner
Pronunciation: shayn-gur
Sentence: Clearly Jason had no choice but to shanger the XT560 for everyone he knew after realizing how much it had changed his life.
Etymology: Share, Shangri-La
Praegorian
Created by: Peepeedance
Pronunciation: pray-gore-ee-uhn
Sentence: The CIA denies involvement in assassinating Mister Wiggles, but the circumstances surrounding his death were rather praegorian.
Etymology: Praetorian + gory
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COMMENTS:
Hehe, whoops, does not correspond to the definition...Pretty nifty anyway, eh? - Peepeedance, 2007-05-07: 21:28:00
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Shadowist
Created by: petersn1
Pronunciation: sha-doe-est
Sentence: I'm not a shadowist, I just thought of it right after you did.
Etymology:
Ucopia
Created by: ohwtepph
Pronunciation: yoo - KOH - pee - uh
Sentence: My computer got busted today. Apparently, a friendly netizen named named Outsmarted B. Phonograph appeared in my e-mail's inbox and he thought that "NotAVirus.Exe" was ucopia. I downloaded the attachment and double-clicked on it. BAM! I knew it was chronosynclastic infundibulum when the ucopia turned out to be something else.
Etymology: utopia (an ideal state or place; usually used to pertain to something which is really nice and wonderful) + copy (to replicate)
Repeatalize
Created by: benjamin
Pronunciation: re-peet-a-lize
Sentence: He fancied himself a sort of content preacher; reverend John104, repeatalized the HD-DVD key to every message board, blog, and fourm denizen he could fine.
Etymology: repeat, evangelize
Translidentize
Created by: AlternativeUlster
Pronunciation: trans-LEYE-dent-eyes
Sentence:
Etymology: translate+identity
Herox
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: he-rocks
Sentence: Jason gave everyone herox duplicates of his trademark Cuban shirt for Christmas because he believed in the classic style. Grandma wasn't so sure...
Etymology: he + rocks = play on word Xerox - a genericized trademark
Vanderzygobian
Created by: melonhead
Pronunciation: Vahn-Der-Zy-GOH-Be-in
Sentence: Her snooty attitude makes her too much of a vanderzygobian
Etymology: