Verboticism: Irlterego
DEFINITION: n. A person who is so enamored with their online identity that they believe that it is more real than their physical one. v. To suddenly realize that you are large, blubbery mammal with no useful superpowers.
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Irlterego
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: earl-ter-ee-go
Sentence: Gordie64's IRLterego was known as Gordon and unlike the svelte, pixellated, online image, was a spotty, pudgy teenager.
Etymology: alter ego + IRL (in real life)
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Eegotist
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ee-go-tist
Sentence: Nerdia was sometimes caught muttering in the lift. She hated catching site of herself in the mirrored walls as it threatened her eegotism, when she saw just how ordinary she looked, in comparison to her online persona.
Etymology: e (prefix commonly used for anything to do with the internet - electronic) + egotist (one who thinks they are darn cool)
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COMMENTS:
agree with the use of "e". eexcellent eword! - splendiction, 2009-05-15: 23:22:00
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Avatarnation
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: avah-TAR-nay-shun
Sentence: Mark's job with the show "To catch a predator" required him to spend a great deal of time online posing as a naive 13 year old girl. He didn't see this as a problem until he came to the realization in a fit of avatarnation that his mind was slowly starting to think like that of a 13 year old girl. His wife was even starting to become a bit concerned when he hung up posters of Justin Timberlake in their bedroom. Avatarnation!!
Etymology: Avatar -a little picture representing an online user Tarnation - a colloquial euphemish in the South Eastern US for Damnation often expressed as "What in tarnation?!"
Immortified
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: ihm-mohr-tih-feyed
Sentence: Siggie's Id had always claimed he was immortal. His Superego told him if he ate his veggies, was a good boy, watched out for fast cars and bad women he might not die too young. But, looking in the mirror that day, his deflated Ego was immortified as he realized his real identity could no longer bounce between the other two. He was becoming self-fractualized!
Etymology: Blending IMMORTAL, meaning exempt from death + MORTIFIED (from the Latin/French MORT, meaning death), meaning humiliated. References are playing with Freud's theories of personality development and Maslow's self-actualization. (What do I know???)
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2009-05-15: 10:28:00
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Falsifeyed
Created by: philhealy
Pronunciation: Fal-si-fied
Sentence: Mac realized that his appearance was drastically falsifeyed from what he looked like online. He, in fact, did not have x-ray vision or abs of steel. He was of a rather embonpoint stature in real life.
Etymology: Falsif- From the word "falsified" -Eyed From the word "eye"
Whoevertar
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: whoo ever tar
Sentence: Wally the beached human whale thought he really looked like the whoevertar of a sleek super hero he carried around on his communications device. His phasers were always on stunning.
Etymology: Whoever (someone or anyone who does a particular thing or is in a particular situation) & Avatar (a new personification of a familiar idea;
Dhboleg
Created by: balku4
Pronunciation: thu-bowlg
Sentence: i dheboleded.
Etymology: dxblibgaej
Virtunotso
Created by: emdeejay
Pronunciation: Virtue not so
Sentence: After a stunning virtuoso performance the night before Dave was beginning to wonder who was real and who was the dream. When he gazed into the mirror the next morning the virtunotso reality of his life struck a major blow to his fantasies.
Etymology: A play on virtual and virtuoso: Dave, the virtunotso