Verboticism: Orwellwellwell
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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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)
Techsposed
Created by: GlobalGallery
Pronunciation: tek-spozed
Sentence: Sam made a good living counting cards. All the Pit Bosses in Vegas knew him well so he had to disguise his face. Dressed as an Ultra-Orthodox Jew with hat, beard, sidelocks, and glasses, he managed to avoid detection from the biometric face-scanning surveillace cameras. What Sam didn't count on was the new addition to the table; the high denomination chip fingerprint scanner. Soon he was techsposed and the casino goons were making a beeline for his table.
Etymology: 1.tech - abbreviation for technology. 2.exposed - revealed or laid open to view.
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COMMENTS:
good one! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-27: 05:16:00
Super Snooper Duper sentence and word! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:43:00
All bets are now off... - Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:14:00
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Panoptechnology
Created by: feltcap
Pronunciation: pan äp′tek näl′ə jē
Sentence: He always felt as if he had been born a generation too late, listening to the older gentlemen at work talk about their younger years. Running red lights, toilet papering neighborhoods, the list went on and on. You couldn't get away with things like that these days, there are cameras everywhere - panoptechnology recording your every move.
Etymology: panoptic - including in one view everything within sight, a reference to Foucault's panopticon, a prison set up to monitor prisoners at all times, technology - applied science
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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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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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
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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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)
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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