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DEFINITION: n. The uneasy comfort that comes from knowing that your family, your friends, the police, the taxman, and every marketer in the world, are using the newest technology track your every move. v. To lose your privacy due to technology.
Verboticisms
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Internetrude
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: Int ter net rood
Sentence: When Paris gave her farmer's wife Mom a communication/video surveillance device for Christmas, she thought it was good for her Mom to phone or text people and feel protected in her home. She thought it was cute how slowly Mom embraced any new-fangled gadgetry. Little did she know that Mom's new toy gave her the ability to internetrude on Paris's active love life. How you gonna keep them down on the farm after they've seen Paris???
Etymology: Internet (a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange) & Intrude (enter uninvited) & Rude (socially incorrect in behavior;lacking civility or good manners)
Eeksposure
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: eek-spoh-zher
Sentence: Joyce loves her devices but she is also afraid of the eeksposure they create. Thankfully her mom cannot even turn on the computer without help.
Etymology: e (electronic) + eek (sound of a squeak of fear) + exposure (disclosure, as of something private or secret)
Etrusion
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: e/tru/sion
Sentence: With all the technological advances i our world, the e-trusion into our lives gives us no sense of privacy any longer.
Etymology: E-TRUSION - noun - from E(electronic) + INTURSION (the forcing into a place without right, or welcome; encroachment)
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COMMENTS:
Short, to the point, meaning readily apparent. refreshingly different - an E-winner! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:06:00
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Digitabs
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: dih-jih-tabs
Sentence: The only way anyone would know about my brass instrument fetish is if they were keeping digitabs on me.
Etymology: to keep tabs on someone + digital
Facespooked
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: fays-spookt
Sentence: Frank, was...well, frankly, freaked. Obviously, he hadn't thought through the consequences of who he accepted as friends on Facebook. And now, his English teacher from 8th grade was correcting his grammar! At 7.35AM that morning, to answer, "What are you doing right now?" Frank had said, "I can't get no satisfaction." By 7.37AM, Miss Primm had commented, "Frank, it is 'I can't get any satisfaction.' Remember our lessons on the double negative?" He was getting Facespooked!
Etymology: Playing on FACEBOOK + SPOOK, to haunt, scare, frighten
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COMMENTS:
-excellent word; LOL sentence! - splendiction, 2009-02-27: 18:40:00
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Entrusion
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: en troo sjun
Sentence: In an effort to keep their family safe, Henry and Marcia had installed high-tech, state of the art handheld surveillance devices. Although they thought this answered their fears, they did not realize that this entrusion applied to their daughter's love-life and they now knew way more than they wanted to...
Etymology: Engineering (the practical application of science to commerce or industry) & Intrusion (entrance by force or without permission or welcome)
Techsposed
Created by: GlobalGallery
Pronunciation: tek-spozed
Sentence: Sam made a good living counting cards. All the Pit Bosses in Vegas knew him well so he had to disguise his face. Dressed as an Ultra-Orthodox Jew with hat, beard, sidelocks, and glasses, he managed to avoid detection from the biometric face-scanning surveillace cameras. What Sam didn't count on was the new addition to the table; the high denomination chip fingerprint scanner. Soon he was techsposed and the casino goons were making a beeline for his table.
Etymology: 1.tech - abbreviation for technology. 2.exposed - revealed or laid open to view.
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COMMENTS:
good one! - galwaywegian, 2009-02-27: 05:16:00
Super Snooper Duper sentence and word! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:43:00
All bets are now off... - Nosila, 2009-02-27: 23:14:00
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Technotracking
Created by: Bughunt
Pronunciation: tek-noe-track-ing
Sentence: With technotracking, we can make sure your safe, your families safe, and prevent you from using competing devices! What comfort!
Etymology: techno from technology. + tracking.
Snowdonder
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: snow dun dur
Sentence: The government are Snowonder with details of our lives
Etymology: Snowdon, snowed under
Orwellwellwellian
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: awr well well well eeeeean
Sentence: The GPS phone provided an orwellwellwellian moment or two as he cruised the seedier side of town in search of his soon-to-be-ex-fiance
Etymology: orwellian, well well well!
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COMMENTS:
So deeply deeply deeply and disturbingly terrorific create! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-27: 11:02:00
love it - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-27: 14:23:00
Brilliant! LOL. Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1984. - GlobalGallery, 2009-02-27: 22:08:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2009-02-27: 10:50:00
WOW! Everyone created a first rate verbotomy! You have my admiration and awe every day, but even more so today!
silveryaspen - 2009-02-27: 10:52:00
I'd vote for every verbotomy today if I could!
silveryaspen - 2009-02-27: 10:59:00
It's also great to see more verbotomists submitting definitions for James and all of us! They are the lifeblood of this game. Which is more challenging: to creat a definition or create a verbotomy?
readerwriter - 2009-02-27: 11:08:00
Maybe that should be a definition, eh? Noun: the anxiety caused by the challenge of whether to create a definition or a verbotomy
silveryaspen - 2009-02-27: 11:21:00
Now all you have to do is submit it in the right place, readerwriter!
splendiction - 2009-02-27: 18:36:00
I'm going to need a lobotomy from my verbotomy at this rate!
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
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