Voted For: Misstraction

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: ēvapidərāshən

Sentence: Joan has given up any thoughts of thinking. She has resigned the real world, where you have to remember stuff, to join the e-world, where your IQ can be measured in gigabytes. Her **smart phone** is brighter than she is. If she has a thought, she better get it down in her notes app or it will succumb to evapidoration. A friend asks if she wants to meet at a particular restaurant. Before you can blink, she is reading the menu and texting a reservation. Just don*t ask her to share her thoughts. She doesn*t have time for those anymore.

Etymology: evaporation (cease to exist) + vapid (offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging - made of vapors)

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Created by: LMR1991

Pronunciation: brain-i-tick

Sentence: Ugh! I have a brainitch.

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Created by: geoamnesia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: The thought came, saw and fled in a nanosecond, leaving me with that familiar feeling of ifonlyness.

Etymology: If + only - a mental and emotional condition common to people with short memories, or no memory at all.

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: re-memb-er

Sentence: Sophie racked her brains to try and recall the witty comeback she was about to make to her nemesis at work. Unfortunately, her thoughts had switched inconveniently to what she needed to get at the shops on the way home and could only rememberr something totally inadequate.

Etymology: remember (the act of memory) + err (to make a mistake) + er (an expression which indicates uncertainty)

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Created by: guesser

Pronunciation: dis-brain-Ea

Sentence: I don't know which is worse, disbrainia or brain freeze, both make my head hurt!

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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: n. thot-bot-oh-mee

Sentence: During his presentation, Bob had an unscheduled thoughtbotomy; the slide was before him, yet he couldn't think of a single word to say.

Etymology: thought, lobotomy

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COMMENTS:

yikes - just thought of a witty retort and then lost it - I gusess it was a verbothoughbotomy - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-21: 09:40:00

I also forgot how to spell guess - Jabberwocky, 2007-05-21: 09:41:00

I can sympathize - I suffer from spellth with alarming frequency lately. - purpleartichokes, 2007-05-21: 18:07:00

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: ah ten shun e see ya

Sentence: During her speech a spell of attentionesia swept the next thought from her mind

Etymology: attention + amnesia

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: brAin-fart

Sentence: Jill had a brainfart only 20 minutes into her speech. People noticed her distant stare and puzzled looks as she tried to recall the topic and reason for being at the podium.

Etymology: brain/fart, escape of bodily gas.

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Created by: treyb

Pronunciation: Ey-dee-dee

Sentence: Arg, aydeedee, I forgot what I was going to tell you.

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Created by: Discoveria

Pronunciation: GAWN-sept

Sentence: Dexter was usually full of ideas, but his latest one rapidly turned into a gonecept when his manager suddenly asked Dexter to describe it.

Etymology: Gone (vanished) + concept (idea)

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COMMENTS:

love it! - galwaywegian, 2012-09-14: 08:02:00

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