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DEFINITION: A psychological dependency on electronic messaging which often leads to compulsive emailing, even among people who are sitting inches apart.
Verboticisms
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Freakomailogy
Created by: Poeiden
Pronunciation: free-ko-mai-lo-gy
Sentence: Bob the computer technician suffers from an occupational hazard of freakomailogy.
Etymology: freak + mail +psychoLOGY
Itard
Created by: Mandalay
Pronunciation: iTard. As in iPod.
Sentence: You are such an iTard, completely useless without technology.
Etymology: iPods, iPhones, iBooks. The Apple range of portable technology. Tard is slang for retard or someone with retardation in my area.
Socialelectrono
Created by: pinkpearls94
Pronunciation: social-electrouno
Sentence:
Etymology:
Emal
Created by: FreeToys
Pronunciation: e' - Mal
Sentence: The scientists at the Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory were enraged when Verbotomy absconded their acronym, to, oddly enough, describe a condition that most of them also shared.
Etymology: Maladjusted/eMailing
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COMMENTS:
It wouldn't let me change the spelling to eMal - FreeToys, 2007-08-29: 10:41:00
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Re: pulsive
Created by: Nicked
Pronunciation: re puls iv
Sentence: When I discovered that I would rather send an email to his cell phone than to walk into the next room to speak to him in person, I knew I was re: pulsive.
Etymology: Re: Email speak for "in response to" + pulsive from compulsive
Internependent
Created by: thesteviest
Pronunciation: in-ter-ne-PEN-dent
Sentence: Internepents Anonymous first step is to take a group of people and their lap tops out of the same room and make them converse through instant messaging from different rooms.
Etymology: internet and dependent
Technopend
Created by: qcpbraca
Pronunciation: Tech-no-pend
Sentence: He is such a technopend, he just simply can't leave his computer when we are about to go out, he always say "just one minute more, i need to read this email"
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Comments:
jadakiss98682 - 2007-08-29: 17:02:00
click on stewhawk and check the etymology of the word. it only makes sense
jadakiss98682 - 2007-08-29: 18:01:00
stewhawk = stephen hawking awesome :)