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DEFINITION: A psychological dependency on electronic messaging which often leads to compulsive emailing, even among people who are sitting inches apart.
Verboticisms
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Digitool
Created by: Ra1111
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The only cure for Digitool Syndrome is to strand the person in the wilderness and if they should make it out alive, send them to live with the Amish.
Etymology: Digital/Tool
Deftmutism
Created by: srjones
Pronunciation: deft-mute-izm
Sentence: We don't talk anymore just chat due to his deftmutism.
Etymology:
Technopend
Created by: qcpbraca
Pronunciation: Tech-no-pend
Sentence: He is such a technopend, he just simply can't leave his computer when we are about to go out, he always say "just one minute more, i need to read this email"
Etymology:
Electroximate
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: ee-lehk-TRAHKS-sihm-muht
Sentence: Alex vainly carried on an electroximate relationship with the woman in the next cubicle. He did wonder why she never returned his IMs, though he knew she was at her desk.
Etymology: electronic + proximate (nearby)
Webuffoon
Created by: torpid
Pronunciation: web-uh-foon
Sentence: Nancy was such a webuffoon that she emailed Rick twelve times using her blackberry on their first date.
Etymology: Web + Buffoon
Aimania
Created by: Pseudonym
Pronunciation: ay-mayn-ee-a
Sentence: "Here's the link for the AIMania support site that I messaged you about."
Etymology: AIM + mania
Freakomailogy
Created by: Poeiden
Pronunciation: free-ko-mai-lo-gy
Sentence: Bob the computer technician suffers from an occupational hazard of freakomailogy.
Etymology: freak + mail +psychoLOGY
Asciphilia
Created by: DrHarvey
Pronunciation: Ass-key-fill-eya
Sentence: I've managed to impress the girl across from me at the library - I think - though our relationship is purely asciphilic.
Etymology: 'Ascii' - form of digital text or code '-philia' - from the Greek 'to love'
Comments:
jadakiss98682 - 2007-08-29: 17:02:00
click on stewhawk and check the etymology of the word. it only makes sense
jadakiss98682 - 2007-08-29: 18:01:00
stewhawk = stephen hawking awesome :)