Verboticisms

Created by: serickson

Pronunciation: sub stan shull yate

Sentence: "But it will get lost in the ethers of cyberspace, which is only a fantasy world after all," grumbled Kyle when his boss told him he'd have to pay for the paper he used if he kept on substantialating his email messages. "At least this way I have something I can hold on to. Email messages aren't really real - You don't even have to be a magician to make them disappear. Look at this," he continued, nodding towards the stack of papers that were bowing him down," I can touch these...pant...pant...pant."

Etymology: substantial - solid, heavy, and real. substantiate - to verify that something is indeed something.

| Comments and Points

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: puh/pahy/ruhlim/ee/uh

Sentence: With unlimited reams of corporate paper, Sally slowly descended the long, lonely path of papyrulimia where she continuously feed the photocopy machine as much paper as it could swallow and with great satisfaction watched it spew out copy after copy after copy.

Etymology: papyrus (PAPER) + bulimia

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Interesting and great blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 16:34:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: däkyəməntl

Sentence: Sarah doesn’t trust her computer. Somebody warned her that her PC might be infested with free radicals. Instead of having a virus, her system might have a cancer. She is more than a little documental, printing every document that comes her way. Now if she could just learn to file them so that she could find them again.

Etymology: document (a piece of written, printed, or electronic matter that provides information or evidence or that serves as an official record) + mental (of, relating to, or suffering from disorders or illnesses of the mind)

| Comments and Points

Created by: milorush

Pronunciation: (n.) dĭs-kěp'tĭ-sĭz'əm, dĭsk-ěp'tĭk;

Sentence: Dr. Tanner's diskepticism has led the members of the office staff to dub him Dr. Xerox.

Etymology: [hard drive] di[sk] + skepticism

| Comments and Points

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: Ey-fawr-REE-uh

Sentence: As copy after copy poured from Roxie's printer, fellow worker worried that her afourrhea would become dendricidal. Indeed, sadly, many years previuosly, her mother had succumbed to documentia.

Etymology: Blend of A-FOUR sized paper - the most commonly used paper for printing & RRHEA: a flow, a current.

| Comments and Points

Created by: pungineer

Pronunciation: pulp/pah/tic

Sentence: When Josephine offered to print up 50 double sided A5 flyers with details of her family's intervention for her worrying pulpatic behaviour of late, she finally started to believe that they might have a point...

Etymology: Pulp - trees, water and stuff + fanatic/lunatic - one who displays obsessive behaviour

| Comments and Points

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: Ehp-sun-ate-ricks

Sentence: The time that Carla spends at the office printer making hard copies of every email proves that she is an Epsonatrix in the worst way. She even prints her SPAM.

Etymology: Epson (type of printer) + dominatrix (person often associated with fetishes)

| Comments and Points

Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: print-ah-file

Sentence: when he finished printing out every file he had that was related to 'paper wastage in modern society', he realised he was a hopeless printaphile

Etymology: print a file, the suffix 'phile'

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

excellent word - very usable - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-07: 09:41:00

Excellent and apt! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 16:35:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: file/an/throw/pist

Sentence: Noted for her many benevolent efforts, the famous fileanthropist Felicity Fileworthy established a museum for the printed word. The building itself is constructed of papier mache.

Etymology: file + philanthropist

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Papier mache, a nice touch. - artr, 2008-10-06: 06:16:00

Nice! - TJayzz, 2008-10-06: 06:50:00

So you dabble in fileanthropy? - zxvasdf, 2008-10-06: 10:51:00

"curses - filed again" - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-06: 11:58:00

haha - zxvasdf, 2008-10-06: 13:47:00

Good one - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-07: 04:48:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: feer rox

Sentence: Xena,the Printses Warrior, lived in eternal fearox that all her electronic files would be wiped out, so she printed out copies of everything that came through her computer. She requested a bigger office but was miffed when her boss refused. Xena's argument that she needed more storage space for her print-outs fell on deaf ears. Her boss cited paper costs and space shortage as reasons to reduce her paper files. Her viewpoint was further proven when a fire started in the piles of paper Xena had stored behind her desk. Thanks to her, now none of them has any records, or jobs either!

Etymology: Fear (paranoia;afraid) & Xerox (duplicator that copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder)

| Comments and Points