Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: n. A person who engages themselves in several different communication channels at the same time, without paying attention to any of them v. To constantly switch your focus between cellphone calls, text messages, emails, and anything else that beeps.
Verboticisms
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Phonectic
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: Phone hectic
Sentence: Jan was so enamoured of electronic communication she had mastered the art of talking on one phone, txting on another whilst reading her email and driving a car. Unfortunately this had rendered both her quality of speech and attention span rather short. She had become phonectic
Etymology: Phone: voice communication tool. Hectic: too fast, too soon. Phonetic: say it like it is
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COMMENTS:
AAAAh, the age of computers...no one can spell, without spellcheck; no one can formulate a sentence without grammarcheck and no one can add or substract without built in calculator...pretty soon all our cerebral functions will be replaced by machinery...HG Wells was waaaaay ahead of his time! - Nosila, 2008-12-13: 00:08:00
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Polyjawnic
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: pol-ee-jah-nik
Sentence: Sue, being polyjawnic, was last seen multichatting on her keyboard and cell phone when the fire alarm went off.
Etymology: polyphonic, jaw (slang for idle chat)
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COMMENTS:
Two cheers for multichatting and three cheers for polyjawnic. Both are Jaw-awesome! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-28: 09:36:00
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Supercellatextemailacallmenowadocious
Created by: LoftyDreamer
Pronunciation: Sing it!
Sentence: ...even though the sound of it is really quite atrocious...Congolia couldn't break herself of the supercellatextemailacallmenowadocious habit of checking her iPhone every two minutes.
Etymology: Loosely based on "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins.
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COMMENTS:
fun to sing!! - libertybelle, 2008-12-15: 12:21:00
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Scandialus
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: skan dye lus
Sentence: Her behaviour was scandialous, scanning every dial within sight, texting with both hands while steering with her chest.
Etymology: scandalous, scan, dial.
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COMMENTS:
Great dialect! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-28: 09:32:00
very funny galway - Jabberwocky, 2008-02-28: 12:43:00
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Dronicator
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: dro-ni-cate-or
Sentence: Jessie was the biggest dronicator. She had 6 cell phones, 10 screen names on 4 different instant messengers, and 5 myspace and facebook accounts. She never had a free minute to talk to someone face-to-face.
Etymology: drone + communicator
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COMMENTS:
Intriguing angle! Leaves a big impression! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-28: 12:48:00
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Ambitextrous
Created by: bigveg
Pronunciation: am-bi-tex-trous
Sentence: Although her ambitextrous abilities afforded her more time for her make up, she regretted telling her father about the underwear she had bought for his valentine's day treat.
Etymology: ambidextrous, text (message)
Transmissionimpossible
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: trans mishun im poss abbel
Sentence: Tilly Fone was a transmissionimpossible. She/he was also a transvestite transcendentalist. When Tilly was transmissionimpossibling the many messages from his/her transient existence in his/her translucent TransAm transportation, his/her concentration became transparent. As a result, what transpired was a transfer of car insurance information, which was a result of a transonic traffic transaction. The other driver was a transplanted, transnational transvestite, who transmitted his/her transitory interest in Tilly. They translated this interest into true love and took a transoceanic cruise and then a transcontinental train to Transylvania, where they transmogrified themselves into transfigured Transmutants, who treated themselves to nightly transfusions from the local transfixed trolls. This is a transcript of this true story of what transpired from Tilly's text messages.
Etymology: transmission (act of sending a message by transmitting a signal) & Mission Impossible (Your mission, should you decide to accept it...)
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COMMENTS:
Here's a bit of fan mail for your transmissionimpossible show! In-trans-ingly Entrancing! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-28: 09:46:00
"T" for "T"- errific sentence! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-02-28: 15:38:00
A truly transformational transcription! - Tigger, 2008-02-28: 23:13:00
Cheers...I'm glad this tiny tale transcended your traditional truths! - Nosila, 2008-03-02: 21:54:00
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Multitaskhole
Created by: picabomama
Pronunciation: multi/task/hole
Sentence: It never failed that as soon as Kelly and her husband Aaron got into the car he would pull out his cell phone and start dialing. While he was waiting for it to connect he would spin the dial on his iPod to show off his latest musical finds, never actually letting any of the songs play farther than the chorus. All of this was made more annoying by the fact that while at home the multitaskhole couldn't seem to fold laundry and watch TV at the same time.
Etymology: multi-tasker + a%&hole I believe that is self-explanatory.
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COMMENTS:
Cute! - ErWenn, 2008-02-28: 09:31:00
Exceptionally good and exceptionally funny! - silveryaspen, 2008-02-28: 09:51:00
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Transmissionary
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: trans mish shun aree
Sentence: Julie was incapabale of going anywhere without being plugged in electronically to the rest of the universe. She was a true tranmissionary, spreading the word of multitasking communications to the rest of the world. The only problem was that Julia's real fix was not in reaching others to chat, but simply training her fingers to fly over keys as fast as she could. But Julia...do it in your home, not in your car! Hang up and drive!
Etymology: Transmission (the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted;an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted;communication by means of transmitted signals) & Missionary (someone sent on a mission, especially a religious or charitable mission
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COMMENTS:
I loved the "missionary" part. Makes me think of a prior definition from two weeks ago (see: "coitentious") :-) - XMbIPb, 2010-05-11: 18:44:00
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Electronicdistractiondisorder
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: e-lec-tron-ic dis-trac-tion dis-or-der
Sentence: Kimberly didn't have time to explain to everyone the particulars of her Electronic Distraction Disorder (EDD) because she was too busy updating her face space tweet sheet.
Etymology: electronic + distraction + disorder. Play on Attention Deficit Disorder.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by magillo. Thank you magillo. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-02-28: 10:05:00
Fun definition! It's and inboxed knock out!
silveryaspen - 2008-02-28: 10:11:00
That should be ... an ... not and ... in my comment above! This is what happens when my fingertips think they can override my brain!
Today's definition was suggested by magillo. Thank you magillo. ~ James
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