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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.
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Emation
Created by: mickey666
Pronunciation: ee-ma-shon
Sentence: Well, you have to become part of the office culture, of course, if you want to achieve emation
Etymology: e = (abbr) electronic mail. mation = the process of making friends
Efaildialogin
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: E-fAle-dIa-log-in
Sentence: Seems Jill can't communicate in person. The problem is, her computer is at the repair shop. Jill is experiencing efaildialogin and can't communicate at all.
Etymology: email/fail/dialogue/log in
Techaddiction
Created by: lalaland6868
Pronunciation: Teck-Ah-Dick-shun
Sentence: Techaddiction is feared by most because it is believed to be taking over the next generation.
Etymology: Tech-technology Addiction- a strong attraction to.
Consensualstext
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: con/sen/shu/al/ste/xt
Sentence: Texting constantly is quite alright as long as it's consensualstext.
Etymology: consensual sex + text
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COMMENTS:
textsational! - Nosila, 2011-02-08: 00:38:00
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Tweetfreak
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: tweet - freek
Sentence: When I met Elijah, I knew there was something different about him. He seemed to be mute. If I asked him a question, he would smile and type. By the time I walked away, I had the answer on my Blackberry. Elijah had become a tweetfreak; he had apparantly decided he would rather twitter than talk.
Etymology: tweet (Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users' updates known as tweets), freak (addict: someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction)
Socialnotworking
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: soe ssssyla noht wer king
Sentence: The office was a hub of socialnotworking, but redundency soon stopped the twitting.
Etymology: social networking not working
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COMMENTS:
good one - Nosila, 2011-02-08: 00:28:00
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Eddiction
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: e-dict-shun
Sentence: My boss's eddiction is even worse since he got his crackberry, now when we talk about Blackberry and Apple crumble he thinks there's been a collapse in the computer industry.
Etymology: addiction (physical dependence) + e (short for electronic)
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COMMENTS:
great sentence - fantastic word - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-06: 10:15:00
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Wwwinfatuation
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ooo win fat you ay shun
Sentence: "this wwwinfatuation is getting out of hand" as he fished the palmtop out of the toilet bowl, complete with its waterproof cover which he had designed after the last incident.
Etymology: www, infatuation
Impulsion
Created by: urbanwookie
Pronunciation: im-puhl-shun
Sentence: Chad felt IMpelled to MSN his colleagues to check who wanted the window open.
Etymology: IM (Instant Messaging) + compulsion
Digimute
Created by: jedijawa
Pronunciation: DIH-je-mute
Sentence: Linda was a classic digimute - often emailing her office partner questions that she could just as easily ask by looking across the room and speaking.
Etymology: digi (digital) + mute (unable to speak)
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