{"id":441,"date":"2008-09-08T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=441"},"modified":"2008-09-08T11:00:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-08T15:00:03","slug":"audiochaff-hey-grandma-your-music-is-way-too-loud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Audiochaff: Hey Grandma! YOUR MUSIC IS WAY TOO LOUD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>, Second-hand sound which has escaped from a headphone or other personal listening device.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/loud.gif\" alt=\"Hey Grandma! YOUR MUSIC IS WAY TOO LOUD!\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Audiochaff<\/strong>:  \/<em>AW-DEE-OH-chaff<\/em>\/ In the hallway outside the library, Babs was listening to her personal audio device. Judging by the AUDIOCHAFF which slopped over, the sound levels inside her earbuds must have been deafening. The AUDIOCHAFF bore no resemblance to music, and even at a distance was more akin to the background radiation from outer space often heard on poorly tuned shortwave radios. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  AUDIO+CHAFF=AUDIOCHAFF&#8230;..AUDIO: of or relating to acoustic, mechanical, or electrical frequencies corresponding to normally audible sound waves;  of, relating to, or utilizing recorded sound&#8230;..CHAFF: something comparatively worthless; Middle English chaf, from Old English ceaf; akin to Old High German cheva husk. <em>Created by:<\/em> metrohumanx.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Audiochaff:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=metrohumanx\">metrohumanx<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-09-04: 00:42:00<\/em> <br \/>http:\/\/www.ieee-virtual-museum.org\/<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=vmalcolm\">vmalcolm<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-09-04: 10:55:00<\/em> <br \/>Ty! Your&#8217;s ain&#8217;t bad at all either =)<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=vmalcolm\">vmalcolm<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-09-04: 10:55:00<\/em> <br \/>Yours!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-09-04: 12:33:00<\/em> <br \/>nice<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-09-05: 01:41:00<\/em> <br \/>From outer space ? Wasn&#8217;t that Victor and Svetka presenting the &#8220;Happy Hour&#8221; on Radio Moscow in the 1960s. top word. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Podlution<\/strong>:  \/<em>pod-loo-shuhn<br \/>\n<\/em>\/ The podlution emanating from fifty different passengers on the subway this morning was not only deafening, but also migraine irritating. <\/p>\n<p> <em>Etymology:<\/em>  PODLUTION &#8211; noun &#8211; from iPOD + POLLUTION <\/p>\n<p> <em>Created by:<\/em> Stevenson0.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Podlution:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=galwaywegian\">galwaywegian<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-09-04: 06:11:00<\/em> <br \/>brilliant1\n<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-09-05: 01:35:00<\/em> <br \/>great word<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Audioh<\/strong>:  \/<em>aw dee owe<\/em>\/ audioh is derived from the teenage phenomenon audiohmygod, but the music is older. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  audio, oh! <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apustics<\/strong>:  \/<em>a-pyu-stiks<\/em>\/ Heather will never forget the day Grandma volunteered to accompany her 8th grade class on the field trip.  She had no idea. Had she known, she would have skipped school for sure.  It was embarrassing enough that Grams brought her headphones and WALKMAN (!) for the bus ride, but her apustics were humiliating. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Acoustic + P.U. (as in stinky musAK) <em>Created by:<\/em> lumina.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Comments on Apustics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=metrohumanx\">metrohumanx<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-09-04: 09:28:00<\/em> <br \/>It&#8217;s a good thing the portable 8-track player was never invented. Poor Grams!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2008-09-05: 01:42:00<\/em> <br \/>Very nice<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=loud\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=loud<\/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: n., Second-hand sound which has escaped from a headphone or other personal listening device. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Audiochaff: \/AW-DEE-OH-chaff\/ In the hallway outside the library, Babs was listening to her personal audio device. 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