Verboticism: Trackberry
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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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,
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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Digitabs
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: dih-jih-tabs
Sentence: The only way anyone would know about my brass instrument fetish is if they were keeping digitabs on me.
Etymology: to keep tabs on someone + digital
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)
Camxiety
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Cam-zy-ity
Sentence: When Jim discovered that his every move was being tracked by the latest 'all seeing' surveillance system, he went into a complete state of camxiety and locked himself in the cupboard under his stairs for a week.
Etymology: Blend of Cam(short for camera) and anxiety
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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Etrusion
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: e/tru/sion
Sentence: With all the technological advances i our world, the e-trusion into our lives gives us no sense of privacy any longer.
Etymology: E-TRUSION - noun - from E(electronic) + INTURSION (the forcing into a place without right, or welcome; encroachment)
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COMMENTS:
Short, to the point, meaning readily apparent. refreshingly different - an E-winner! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:06:00
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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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Tracknowledgy
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: trak/nol/ed/gee
Sentence: The lastest tracknowledgy elicits extreme anxiety as well as solace when you realize that Big Brother is riding piggyback wherever you go.
Etymology: track + knowledge + edgy + technology
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COMMENTS:
Your creative puns always amaze me ... but this one is especially excellent! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:17:00
Touche, jw...Big Brother has tons of siblings! - Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:10:00
Excellent - TJayzz, 2009-02-28: 13:19:00
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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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