{"id":1455,"date":"2012-04-20T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2012-04-20T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T16:01:08","slug":"dumbphoned-what-was-your-name-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Dumbphoned: What was your name again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em> To be so dependent on computers and other gadgets, that you cannot communicate or even think without them. <em>n.<\/em> A person who cannot communicate, or even think, without using an electronic device.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/twit.gif\" alt=\"What was your name again?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dumbphoned<\/strong>:  \/<em>dum foned<\/em>\/ After leaving his phone at the bar last night Doug couldn&#8217;t even call his own mother.  He was completely dumbphoned, <em>Etymology:<\/em>  dumbfounded + phone <em>Created by:<\/em> Koekbroer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cellshocked<\/strong>:  \/<em>sell-shockt<\/em>\/ Katie was a terminal cellshocker. Sadly, her boyfriend had resorted to texting her immediately after sex to confirm her satisfaction. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Cell &#8211; phone network.  Shocked &#8211; acute physical or mental disturbance\/state of confusion. <em>Created by:<\/em> fabdiva.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eddiction<\/strong>:  \/<em>ee dikt shun<\/em>\/ Ed had such a strong eddiction to things electronic, he could not talk to a pretty girl in front of him.  He had to get her e-mail or text address or facebook address before he could ask her out. He was the original cybernaught. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  ed-electronic device &amp; addiction (dependency) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ethetic<\/strong>:  \/<em>ee-thet-ik<\/em>\/ When it comes to personal communications Wendall is ethetic. If he can&#8217;t email, text, IM or tweet he can&#8217;t communicate. Most of his &#8220;friends&#8221; don&#8217;t even know what his voice sounds like. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  e (electronic) + pathetic (causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=twit\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=twit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: v. To be so dependent on computers and other gadgets, that you cannot communicate or even think without them. n. A person who cannot communicate, or even think, without using an electronic device. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Dumbphoned: \/dum foned\/ After leaving his phone at the bar last night Doug &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dumbphoned: What was your name again?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}