{"id":1596,"date":"2012-12-11T12:01:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T17:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2012-12-11T12:01:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-11T17:01:10","slug":"reprobsessed-how-many-trees-did-you-kill-to-print-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1596","title":{"rendered":"Reprobsessed: How many trees did you kill to print that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>v.<\/em>, To compulsively print out paper copies of all electronic files. <em>n.<\/em>,  A printing fetish common among paper pushers who suffer from a paranoid fear that their digital files are disintegrating on their hard drives.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/print.gif\" alt=\"How many trees did you kill to print that?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reprobsessed<\/strong>:  \/<em>reh-prob-SESSD<\/em>\/ Millicent is reprobsessed,  burdened by a perceived &#8216;need&#8217; to print out everything from her emails, office correspondence, on line bill payments, and other kinds of on-line data that she is inundated with daily. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;reproduce&#8217; (To make a copy of) and &#8216;obsessed&#8217; (the domination of one&#8217;s thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pulpliferation<\/strong>:  \/<em>puhlp-lif-uh-rey-shuh\u00e2\u20ac\u2030n<\/em>\/ Joanne doesn&#8217;t trust her computer. As many times as it has rebelled against her will and done what it logically wants to, she prints out all of her email. To add to the pulpliferation she proofreads each one, corrects grammar and spelling and prints them again. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  pulp (any soft, moist, slightly cohering mass, as that into which linen, wood, etc., are converted in the making of paper) + proliferation (a rapid and often excessive spread or increase) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brinkjet<\/strong>:  \/<em>brink jet<\/em>\/ Sally was on the brinkjet of rainforest annihilation while printing off every online e-mail and report in her company.  Thanks to her boss who caught her in time, the forests in North and South AMerica can now rest easier. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Brink (the limit beyond which something happens or changes) &amp; Inkjet (type of computer printing that creates a digital image by propelling droplets of ink onto paper) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=print\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=print<\/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 compulsively print out paper copies of all electronic files. n., A printing fetish common among paper pushers who suffer from a paranoid fear that their digital files are disintegrating on their hard drives. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Reprobsessed: \/reh-prob-SESSD\/ Millicent is reprobsessed, burdened by a perceived &#8216;need&#8217; to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1596\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reprobsessed: How many trees did you kill to print that?<\/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\/1596"}],"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=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}