Verboticisms

Created by: Kurisu

Pronunciation: 'di-ji&-rät'

Sentence: I had all kinds or real world responsibilities, but chose instead to digirot.

Etymology: Digital: of, relating to, or being data in the form of especially binary digits + Rot: to cause to decompose or deteriorate with or as if with rot

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Created by: AnnieChandon

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: my - kro - selfd

Sentence: Jed was a difficult person to carry on a conversation with. He was so microselfed that he only imagined himself. He felt only truly alive as an avatar and ceased to belive in real friends; only imaginary ones sufficed now. In those few minutes that he did "look up" from his laptop, all we saw was a blank stare and no recognition that he knew who we were either.

Etymology: micro (microcomputer, Microsoft, self

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: eee murst

Sentence: she became so Emmersed in her second life that she would have festered away altogether had her broadband coverage been anything as good as she was told it would be.

Etymology: immersed, e as in electronic

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: si-blob

Sentence: After weeks of playing Warcraft for hours on end, Dave officially became a cyblob and was able to totally ignore Jill's rants about mowing the grass.

Etymology: cyborg, cyber, and blob (a useless lump of flesh)

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Created by: texmom

Pronunciation: ego ne sia

Sentence: Her chatroom buddies realized egonesia had gripped their friend.

Etymology: ego - self nesia (shortening of amnesia)

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If it could be two words then ego amnesia would be better. - texmom, 2007-05-09: 21:55:00

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: E-kluh-SHUN-ist.

Sentence: Roxie became so immersed in a world of virtual reality that she became e-communicado; an Eclusionist (E-clusionist) living in a world of E-bay, E-food and, when speaking, doing so only in in E-speranto.

Etymology: E: prefix used to describe anything related to the internet; cyberspace & CLUDERE: to shut up, enclose, close up, confine," from L. secludere "shut off, confine," "to shut". Meaning "to remove from public view" Based on seclusion ; exclusionist. Cognates: Eclusion; Eclusionery, Eclusionate.

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sounds a bit e-litist - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-08: 13:31:00

E-xcellent word... - Nosila, 2008-07-08: 19:33:00

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Created by: Bertie

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Sentence: I broke into the flat only to find that the poor soul was already depitute.

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Created by: whatley

Pronunciation: Di-jin-trance

Sentence: JP sat digintranced by the game, his eyes glazed over and dully staring at a monitor surrounded by cigarette butts, Mountain Dew cans, and filth.

Etymology: From Eng. Entranced by the Digital. 1993. Growing availability of digital cable and high grade cannabis in the early 1990s entranced America with hundreds of new channels of mindless programming.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: SY-ber-myrd

Sentence: For the last couple years Linda has been absolutely cybermired, deeply immersed in communication on the internet thru Twitter, Facebook, and public forums, as well as being heavily involved in texting on her cellphone.

Etymology: Blend of the words 'cyber' (a combining form meaning “computer,” “computer network,” or “virtual reality,”) and 'Mired' (mire v.tr. To hinder, entrap, or entangle as if in mire)

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