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DEFINITION: n. A psychological dependency on electronic messaging which often leads to compulsive emailing, even among people who are sitting inches apart. v. To email, twitter, or text compulsively.
Verboticisms
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Texican
Created by: tommyboy
Pronunciation: teks-eh-ken
Sentence: her over-dependency on facebook practically grants her texican citizenship.
Etymology: hmm
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COMMENTS:
Bueno! - Nosila, 2009-09-24: 01:32:00
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Communicaddiction
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kom myoon ick ad dikt shun
Sentence: Byron had a communicaddiction and was never seen without being glued to a computer, blackberry ot other latest device to contact other humans. The main problem with this communicaddiction, was that Byron could not communicate verbally in person with other humans. Without the crutches of modern technology, he was powerless to transmit his emotions and develop real relationships. He was not alone in his dependency. We know that the early pioneers of e-mail, only developed it so that a person could send a joke to a co-worker only inches away in the same room, on company time...
Etymology: Communicate ( transmit thoughts or feelings or information;be in contact; interchange information or ideas) & Addiction (being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming)
Obsessamessage
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Did you get my message? Stop obsessamessage-ing it.
Etymology: obsessive messageing
Asciimania
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: ass-kee-may-nee-ya
Sentence: "Doug just emailed his dog explaining that he couldn't get the usual chow. I think he has asciimania."
Etymology: ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange), the text encoding system used in computers and communication; + mania
Eyembrainosis
Created by: bettyann9
Pronunciation: Eye-em-brane-ose-is
Sentence: Overuse of Yahoo messenger can lead to severe eyembrainosis. The only known treatment is removal from the computer area and forced conversation with strangers in line at the supermarket.
Etymology: IM (instant messaging)+ brain (brain) + osis (a diseased or abnormal condition)
Emailady
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: E-mail ad ee
Sentence: You could watch Carol and Emma from accross the office constantly in a situation of Emailady, unable to even say a word but still talking through their email.
Etymology: from email and malady
Depenmail
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: di/pun/mail
Sentence: He is a depenmail... just look at him typing!
Etymology: Dependece + email. For an obscure reason it made me think of "lolicon" so i put it as a noun even though i wanted to put it as a verb...
Elecbonics
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ee-lec-bon-ix
Sentence: Bob had an addydiction and spoke only in elecbonics, so by the time he could e-mail his coworkers that he "did believe he was experiencing an acute myocardial infarction," it was too late.
Etymology: electronic, ebonics
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COMMENTS:
it actually sounds like a malady - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-06: 10:17:00
Hmmmm.... let me see if I can change it. - purpleartichokes, 2007-03-06: 11:29:00
that's a good word too - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-06: 13:41:00
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Machooked
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: mac + hooked
Sentence: They were so machooked that they would chat on and on without ever saying a word to each other, despite being in the same room.
Etymology: You've heard of a Macbook, right? Right.
Dotcompulsive
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: dot-com-poll-siv
Sentence: when he realised that pressing send/receive had become the most exciting part of his day, he knew he was dotcompulsive
Etymology: dot com, compulsive
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COMMENTS:
textraordinary! got my vote - galwaywegian, 2007-03-06: 05:10:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Antimus.
Thank you Antimus! ~ James
Osomatic - 2007-03-09: 17:48:00
You know what's creepy that I didn't notice before now? The guy in this cartoon kinda looks like me.
Osomatic - 2007-03-09: 17:48:00
Kinda.
Today's definition was suggested by Antimus. Thank you Antimus. ~ James
Glad to see that everyone is talking with their fingers! Jasper Fforde certainly does it. And I was at a talk last night by August de los Reyes, creative director at Microsoft Surface, where they are designing a touch interface for the next generation computers. He says we are moving closer and closer to immateriality. I think that means fiction is becoming reality. That's we need people like Thursday Next -- Special Operatives in Jurisfiction -- to keep the story straight. ~ James