DEFINITION: n. A technological innovation that doesn’t work as expected because “normal people” can’t figure out how to use it. v. To improve something in a way that makes it much harder to use.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Unnovation: /un-no-VA-shun/ “The voice mail tree at XYZ PC Warehouse is a real unnovation.” Etymology: un (not) + novation (from Innovation) Created by: bedens.
Comments on Unnovation:
Nosila, 2009-10-07: 23:49:00
Unnovative word…good one!
Digitknowitall: /dij it no it all/ Reggie had bought a fancy new digital radio/alarm clock/coffeemaker/toaster. It was designed to be efficient in the morning by waking him up on time and getting his breakfast ready. His new appliance was a digitknowitall. Great in theory, but he could never get the radio station he liked programmed into it, so he had to listen to newscasts in a foreign language. He could also never program in the correct time…it was always an hour behind or so. The coffee tasted like something you would expect would come out of a new computer and the toast was always burned black. His only consolation was that the smoke detector awoke him if the alarm failed, the coffee was a handy extinguisher for the burnt breakfast offerings and his clock was right twice a day. Etymology: Digital (of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits) & Know-It-All (a person who thinks/behaves as if they know everything, but usually knows less than you would think on a subject). Created by: Nosila.
Comments on Digitknowitall:
splendiction, 2009-10-07: 21:44:00
LOL! I’m still laughing, ha ha! Thanks!
Technifficult: /tek – nif – eh – kult/ Seymour found that the voice activated answer lines were very technificult.
If he chose option 1, he was only left with three options, none of which fit his question. If he chose option 2, there were four options, unrelated to his question, and so on and so on until he gave up and hung up. Etymology: technical, difficult Created by: mweinmann.
Comments on Technifficult:
splendiction, 2009-10-07: 21:40:00
Excellent!Nosila, 2009-10-07: 23:50:00
We’ve all been there…
Technotlogical: /tek-not-lodge-ee-call/ The manual was written in such technotlogical terminology that no one really understood how to actually use the product. Nevertheless, it was a cool piece of technogadgetry and everyone wanted one. Etymology: technological: relating to or or resulting from technology + not: a logical operator that returns a false value if the operand is true and a true value if the operand is false (whatever that means) + logical: rational, reasonable or sensible Created by: mrskellyscl.
Comments on Technotlogical:
galwaywegian, 2009-10-07: 06:05:00
like itsplendiction, 2009-10-07: 21:42:00
yes often so true! Good word!
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