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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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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
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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Techtard
Created by: japfilsk8er
Pronunciation: tech-tard
Sentence: confuse on how a device is used.
Etymology: technology , and being dumb, retard
Supporthosed
Created by: gplowell
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
This one cracks me up! - ScrabbledEgg, 2007-09-14: 23:43:00
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Featurd
Created by: VersaVice
Pronunciation: fee-terd
Sentence:
Etymology: feature + turd
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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Inscruticall
Created by: Syzygy
Pronunciation: in-skrew-ti-call
Sentence: After looping through the automated menus, Kip declaired the attempt an inscruticall.
Etymology: Insruitable and Call
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"
Invistaquacy
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: in/vis/tah/kwa/see
Sentence: Windows has come out with the latest invistaquacy. The user must have at least an information technology degree to download the manual.
Etymology: vista + inadequacy
Comments:
enatefox - 2007-09-17: 11:01:00
neurotypicalastize