Verboticisms

Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /dij-uh-rah-TEE-dee-um/

Sentence: Ken and Julie would blog about everything — detailing all of the digeratedium of their lives that nobody else really cares about. When they got engaged, they started a website, and wrote about all the minutiae of their wedding planning. Then they started a new blog when they got a cat, and posted pictures and stories about what it did that day, and what it might be saying if it could talk. Now they have a baby. Reading the daily pregnancy updates were mind-numbing, but the pages of text they'd write each time baby Ryan spit up or filled his diaper were enough to induce a coma.

Etymology: Digerati - people who often use, or are knowledgeable about, digital technologies (from dig[ital] + [lit]erati "computer literate") + Tedium - the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tedious (from Latin, tædium "weariness, disgust")

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digerati is a new one on me, and it works well with this. - stache, 2008-06-17: 06:21:00

To me too; nice word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:38:00

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Created by: arms58

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: pomp-o-log

Sentence: She felt the need to POMPOULOG me all day-by cellphone,email and telepathy. Pat POMPOULOGGED everyone on her address book. She's very thorough. I don't care about your trivial life. Stop this compulsive POMPOULOGGING now.

Etymology: POMPOUS-An inflated opinion of one's importance LOG- To record or document chronologically.

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I thought this word was easier to pronounce when reading on the fly. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:15:00

I think pompoulog has a great rhythm to it - bookowl, 2008-06-17: 15:44:00

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Created by: arms54

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Created by: WhiteRhino

Pronunciation: Mead-ee-ya-crah-tic

Sentence: She was completely Mediocratic the other day, I couldn't take it.

Etymology: Media, -cratic

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Created by: nuemj88

Pronunciation: cum-pulse-se-pown-age

Sentence: I totally compusipwnaged that open internet test. He just got compulsipwned in that debate

Etymology: compulsi-a very strong impulse to do something pwnage-The verb to pwn (past tense: pwned, pwnd, pwn'd, pwnt, pooned) as used by the Internet gaming subculture, means to beat or dominate an opponent.

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Created by: bookowl

Pronunciation: man/ik/doh/tal

Sentence: A manecdotal person never tires of listening to their own accounts of their own life.

Etymology: manic + anecdotal

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MANECDOTAL is very good...kind of intuitive and rolloffatistic. - metrohumanx, 2008-06-17: 14:28:00

like it - galwaywegian, 2008-06-17: 18:43:00

Good one! - Nosila, 2008-06-17: 22:52:00

Excellent - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:53:00

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Created by: LonePaladin

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I wanted to use 'blogroll' because it would encapsulate the words 'blog', 'logroll' and 'bogroll' all in one. It's been used, though. Pity. - LonePaladin, 2007-04-12: 00:36:00

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Created by: arms60

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Created by: wordmeister

Pronunciation: die-ar-hee-ha

Sentence: Michael wondered if his celluar diarrheehaa was a byproduct of his forced constipsaytion at work, so he called one his friends and chat at his desk... This was a big mistake.

Etymology: diary + diarrhea

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everyone i know has this proplem. lol - willster, 2007-04-16: 21:21:00

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