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Nothing really, I just thought I was funny and we could use a light moment in our day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">PR, marketing, advertising and communications professionals may want to work some of these new words into their next deliverable and see what sort of reaction they get!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Some of my new word favorites:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Social Notworking&#8221; (n.):<\/strong> The loss of productivity caused by too much time spent on Facebook.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Textually Frustrated&#8221; (adj.):<\/strong> To wait impatiently while the SMS system catches up, for example, is to be &#8220;textually frustrated<\/li>\n<li><strong>Carborexic<\/strong><strong> (n.):<\/strong> A person who is obsessed with minimizing his or her use of carbon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Disemvowel <\/strong><strong>(v.):<\/strong> To remove the vowels from a piece of text as a form of censure in order to render the piece more difficult to read; generally done by the moderator of an online community.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Micro-Boredom <\/strong><strong>(n.):<\/strong> What we used to call downtime is now increasingly filled by fiddling with mobiles or BlackBerrys. 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