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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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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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Wrecknology
Created by: chalkdrinker
Pronunciation: rek-nall-oh-jee
Sentence: if it's such a great piece of wrecknology, why is the manual over 200 pages?
Etymology: Wreck, technology
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COMMENTS:
Good one! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 12:34:00
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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
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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Featurd
Created by: VersaVice
Pronunciation: fee-terd
Sentence:
Etymology: feature + turd
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
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
Ohnovation
Created by: ScrabbledEgg
Pronunciation: oh-noe-vay-shun
Sentence: Their last software release was the most ohnovative offering yet: simply chock a block with ohnovations! Please, kill me before any more ohnovating goes on.
Etymology: Oh no! (as in "Oh no!, That's not what I frickin' wanted", or "Oh. no. you. didn't.") + innovation
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COMMENTS:
nice one. - galwaywegian, 2007-09-14: 07:29:00
it sounds like Mr. Bill from old Saturday Night Live skits ("Oh no!!) - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 14:54:00
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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