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DEFINITION: A technological innovation that doesn't work as expected because "normal people" can't figure out how to use it.
Verboticisms
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Unvention
Created by: younger
Pronunciation: UN-VEN-SHUN
Sentence: The device caused more headaches than solutions, hence it's nomination for the unvention of the year.
Etymology: Un + Invention More than just the opposite of an invention - in undoes what it is designed to do.
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COMMENTS:
Prefixtion! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 11:02:00
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Mystech
Created by: jayre
Pronunciation: MIS-tech
Sentence: A mystech happened when the company replaced all the keyed door entries with numeric PIN pads.
Etymology: mystery + technology + misstep
Crapparatus
Created by: Scrumpy
Pronunciation: krap-uh-rat-us
Sentence: The new toaster was such a piece of crapparatus that we couldn't even figure out where to put the toast in.
Etymology: crap + apparatus
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COMMENTS:
great! - galwaywegian, 2007-09-14: 07:28:00
that's fun to say. I'm going to adopt this into my daily lexicon. - younger, 2007-09-14: 09:30:00
very funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 10:16:00
Love it! - purpleartichokes, 2007-09-14: 10:50:00
Hilarious. Voting now. - ScrabbledEgg, 2007-09-14: 23:41:00
I toast you: great word. But remember toast is the strangest of all foods: it is eaten in the morning and drunk at night! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-15: 18:27:00
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Techolera
Created by: frenchprof
Pronunciation: tek cholera
Sentence: Tech Persons infected with techolera have massive logorehea.
Etymology: du vieux francais, bilieux, se faire de la bile.
Windowsvista
Created by: graypenguin
Pronunciation: win-doze-vis-ta
Sentence: He was so happy to get his new PC only to realize that it had windows vista on it and it crashed 4 timed and installed 100 updates before he could use it.
Etymology:
Mechanschism
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: mek/an/skis/im
Sentence: Mechanschisms will be the downfall of social interaction.
Etymology: mechanism + schism
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COMMENTS:
Creative! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 10:42:00
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Painvention
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: pain + ven + shun
Sentence: This fancy-new phone is supposed to do everything, but it's such a painvention that I can't figure out how to make it do anything.
Etymology: pain + invention
Featurd
Created by: VersaVice
Pronunciation: fee-terd
Sentence:
Etymology: feature + turd
Shlupgrade
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: shh lupp grey d
Sentence: every shlupgrade was supposed to make him feel more empowered, but ended up making feel he had slipped a couple of rungs further down the evolutionary ladder.
Etymology: upgrade, shlupp
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COMMENTS:
nice to have your sense of humour back in the game - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 10:15:00
I like it! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 10:46:00
It's enough to make anyone feel greyed out. - petaj, 2007-09-15: 01:31:00
Perhaps Darwin didnt go far enough: some members of our species may have started on the way back! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-15: 18:44:00
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Brokethrough
Created by: whirredup
Pronunciation: broek-throo
Sentence: After recording the wrong show 3 weeks in a row, she marveled at her fancy DVR's oft-cited brokethrough technology.
Etymology: breakthrough, as in "technological breakthrough"; + broke, as in "this shit doesn't work"
Comments:
enatefox - 2007-09-17: 11:01:00
neurotypicalastize