Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: kop pee us ness

Sentence: Mimi O'Graf drove her boss, Savya Treez, crazy because she printed off everything that came through her e-mail...even things sent to her by mistake. She was suffering from a bad case of copyiousness and to try and curb her fetish, Savya denied her request for another filing cabinet. Mimi already had four of them and she'd only worked there a year. "Mimi", she said, "You are going to have to go through all those files and purge the unimportant. The whole point of us going paperless was to have less paper around!" Said Mimi, "But, Boss, if I have to waste time reading all the old e-mails, I will get behind in printing off the new ones!" "That's it, Mimi!" said Savya, "I am calling the producers of "Intervention" and "Hoarders" to get you some help!!!"

Etymology: Copy (a reproduction of a written record) & Copiousness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: puhlp-lif-uh-rey-shuh n

Sentence: Joanne doesn't trust her computer. As many times as it has rebelled against her will and done what it logically wants to, she prints out all of her email. To add to the pulpliferation she proofreads each one, corrects grammar and spelling and prints them again.

Etymology: pulp (any soft, moist, slightly cohering mass, as that into which linen, wood, etc., are converted in the making of paper) + proliferation (a rapid and often excessive spread or increase)

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: zee robs esss yun

Sentence: her boeese reaction to her xerobsession, when discovered, was unprintable.

Etymology: xerox obsession

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COMMENTS:

Good one. - Mustang, 2008-10-06: 18:58:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: i ng k jedˌī

Sentence: Lewis didn't didn't care that he was burning through reams of paper for he was an InkJedi. He was saving the company e-files from the dark force that causes documents to go stale if they sit too long on the server. Forget that most of this stuff should have deleted soon after it was created, Lewis kept himself busy lining his squirrel's nest of an office with papers he could never find if he had to. It made him feel at one with the Force even if it kept him from getting any real work done.

Etymology: ink-jet (a printer in which the characters are formed by minute jets of ink) Jedi (a member of the mystical knightly order in the Star Wars films, trained to guard peace and justice in the the universe)

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COMMENTS:

He was probably responding to the voices coming from the stacks of pristine paper - "Luke - I am your fodder". - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-06: 10:24:00

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Created by: thegoatisbad

Pronunciation: pulp-gulp

Sentence: Few coworkers suspected that Kimberly and Zinnia were waging a silent war against each other, but suspicions were raised after Zinnia spearheaded an effort to reduce "pulpgulp" and Kimberly responded by insisting that all correspondence with her desk occur via facsimile.

Etymology: Pulp (mushy mix of paper fibers and water) + Gulp (to consume quickly)

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: sy-kot-ih-kop-ee

Sentence: Studies have shown that most office workers over the age of 50 have succumbed to varying degrees of psychoticopying during their tenure.

Etymology: psychotic + copy

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COMMENTS:

another great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-07: 10:38:00

Looks good:great symmetry about it! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-07: 16:39:00

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Prin-ta-file

Sentence: When Susan got a visit from the head of the 'Save the trees campaign', she realised she had become a compulsive printaphile. She promised that she would get help for her addiction and vowed she would try to keep her fondness for printing out all her personal files to a bare minimum in the future.

Etymology: Print(produce a paper copy,(information stored on a computer) + Phile(combining form denoting a person having a fondness for or tendency towards a specific thing) ORIGIN Greek 'loving' = Printaphile. See also File(a collection of data stored on a computer)

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great sentence - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-06: 10:26:00

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Created by: Andlat

Pronunciation: prin-toe-phee-lee-uh

Sentence: She had such a bad case of printophilia that she printed out her entire hard drive.

Etymology: Print+philia (Grk. for love)

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: brink jet

Sentence: Sally was on the brinkjet of rainforest annihilation while printing off every online e-mail and report in her company. Thanks to her boss who caught her in time, the forests in North and South AMerica can now rest easier.

Etymology: Brink (the limit beyond which something happens or changes) & Inkjet (type of computer printing that creates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper)

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Created by: Sambloom

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