Verboticisms

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.

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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

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: kript/pro/gram

Sentence: The newest version of cardscam was such a crytprogram that even the cards couldn't understand it

Etymology: cryptogram (obscure puzzle) + program (as in computer)

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COMMENTS:

The crypt keeper has a winner! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-14: 10:29:00

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Created by: skeeterzirra

Pronunciation: miss now loh zhe

Sentence: He said that it is foolproof, but that he underestimated the inventiveness of fools, but only one ubergeek has managed to figure it out.

Etymology: Mistaken technology

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Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: gli-tek-noh-vay-shun

Sentence: The entire process in learning the new phone system soon became an exercise in patience. The obvious glitechnovation made her want to stick pins in her eyes.

Etymology: glitch + techno combined

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Created by: azaria202

Pronunciation: Frig-gen

Sentence: You friggen person.

Etymology: another word for fucking

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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"

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: hard-ware

Sentence: A gazillion pieces of hardwhere had been shifted in the Christmas shopping spree. By 10.00am the next shopping day, the support lines were jammed by callers trying to work out how the coaxial cable was supposed to connect to the 12 pin outlet behind the doodad.

Etymology: hardware + hard (difficult) + where (as in where the heck does this cable go?)

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: no-Ver-welm

Sentence: When a packet of "smart dust", along with an instructional manual to rival "War and Peace," arrived at Bob's home he thought that he was about to be at the forefront of technological innovation. But after an hour of technolunacy trying to figure out how to apply the dust to make his house environmentally friendly, Bob started banging his avanthard head against a wall. Finally, reluctantly and noverwhelmed, he switched the vacuum cleaner on, and started sucking up this technoxious nanotechinanity.

Etymology: Blend of Nov(L):new & overwhelm: render helpless

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COMMENTS:

I really like nanotechnicanity - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-14: 12:53:00

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Created by: VersaVice

Pronunciation: fee-terd

Sentence:

Etymology: feature + turd

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