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"It's almost Christmas and as much as I love the holidays, I also hate them because the hellatives will be here for a week or so."
by PRwiz101 October 27, 2011
Get the hellatives mug.A typo (one-letter keyboarding mistake, typewriter mistake) that the spell-check function cannot pick up because the word is spelled correctly -- although not for the word you wanted to key in. They are called "atomic typos" because the change of just one letter completely changes the word, although it remains spelled correctly in terms of the spell check function
Examples:
Chris, instead of Christ
war, instead of was
bite, instead of byte
massage, instead of message
Quote: "Wow, the newspaper had an atomic typo on the front page, the writer meant to say "message" but what appeared in the article was "massage". Oops! That's a real atomic typo, and there's very little one can do to stop them!"
Chris, instead of Christ
war, instead of was
bite, instead of byte
massage, instead of message
Quote: "Wow, the newspaper had an atomic typo on the front page, the writer meant to say "message" but what appeared in the article was "massage". Oops! That's a real atomic typo, and there's very little one can do to stop them!"
by PRwiz101 May 15, 2009
Get the atomic typo mug."As more and more print newspapers go digital and stop being printed on paper, I worry that these digital frankenpapers might turn into little monsters."
-- overheard at a watercooler in a Madison Avenue advertising agency office, September 1, 2010
-- overheard at a watercooler in a Madison Avenue advertising agency office, September 1, 2010
by PRwiz101 September 14, 2010
Get the frankenpapers mug.(n.) - A daily newspaper delivered to an iPad and read on a screen; also applies to daily digital newspapers delivered to and read on other types of tablet devices.
"I used to start my days off with the old trusty print newspaper at the breakfast table, but now I'm addicted to reading the ipaper at our kitchen table. I get the news on my clean screen, and I also get a lot of links to other sites. It's a whole new ballgame!"
-- overheard at a water cooler in Manhattan on January 31, 2011
-- overheard at a water cooler in Manhattan on January 31, 2011
by PRwiz101 February 21, 2011
Get the ipaper mug.A bound book made from paper with a front cover and a back cover and anywhere from 100 to 300 pages inside, printed on paper and to be read on a comfortable chair at one's leisure.
"I hate reading e-books on a Kindle. Give me a real Bindle anyday!"
-- Overheard at water cooler at a bookstore in Manhattan in June 2009.
-- Overheard at water cooler at a bookstore in Manhattan in June 2009.
by PRwiz101 August 4, 2009
Get the Bindle mug."The problem, then, isn't that screens aren't sharp enough to read novels off of. The problem is that novels aren't screeny enough to warrant protracted, regular reading on screens. "
Cory Doctorow, in an article titled "You Do Like Reading Off a Computer Screen" -- (Locus Magazine, March 2007)
Cory Doctorow, in an article titled "You Do Like Reading Off a Computer Screen" -- (Locus Magazine, March 2007)
by PRwiz101 July 22, 2009
Get the screeny mug.A person who is neither a scientist nor a science fiction writer, but writes and blogs about possible sci-fi scenarios for the future.
Although polar cities do not exist yet, there's a blogger who envisions them as safe refuges for survivors of global warming in the far distant future, and he calls himself a scifientist.
by PRwiz101 May 4, 2008
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