Verboticism: Lawyertudity
DEFINITION: An often debilitating condition characterized by compulsive, repetitive and obsessive reading of product documentation and warranties.
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Ignoraphobia
Created by: w5lf9s
Pronunciation: Ig-norah-foubia
Sentence: Look at all these User's Manuals. He must have a bad case of ignoraphobia
Etymology: ignorare (lat.) to "not know" + phobos (greek) strong, irrational fear of something
Documania
Created by: elona
Pronunciation: Dokumania
Sentence:
Etymology: Documentation+mania
Warrentyism
Created by: texmom
Pronunciation: war ren tee ism
Sentence: By re-reading the directions to the alarm clock the thirtith time she fell into warrentyism
Etymology: warrenty - guarantee of goodness in a product ism - makes it a noun
Fuckedy
Created by: onekid
Pronunciation: fuckedy
Sentence: hm?
Etymology: oo da
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COMMENTS:
uu - onekid, 2007-07-07: 17:15:00
wTF does that even mean?!?! - missmurder, 2007-07-29: 19:03:00
oh i get it lmao!!!! - missmurder, 2007-07-29: 19:03:00
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Mansessivetism
Created by: duriano
Pronunciation: man-se-sif-ti-zem
Sentence: His mansessivetism drives me crazy everytime I ask him about the washing machine.
Etymology: manual + obsesssive
Instruxation
Created by: Clay201
Pronunciation: In struc SAY shun
Sentence: When she smiled apologetically and nervously reached into the drawer to pull out the coffee maker manual for what must have been the twentyieth time, I knew she was suffering from instruxation.
Etymology: It's a combination of the words "instructions" and "fixation."
Hyperinfodocumentitis
Created by: bailandi
Pronunciation: hi-pur-in-foe-dok-u-men-tie-tis
Sentence: One of my grandfather's sypmtom of hyperinfodocumentitus was a drawer full of manuals to antiquated equipment kept by his bedside.
Etymology: Hyper - prefix, beyond, over, above; usually implying excess or exaggeration. "info and documen" signify dealing with information and documents, -itis meaning inflammation, making this sound like a medicial condition.
