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I am not receiving emails from you

What one urbandictionary.com contributor is asking the staff here.

This urbandictionary.com contributor is asking why “ I am not receiving emails from you, urbandictionary.com, for months ?”

I’ll submit new words and get no feedback.

Please help, thank you.

by but for July 5, 2022

embarrassed witness

A witness who saw someone else do something which embarrassed that person and also feels embarrassed for having witnessed what took place and knowing that the person who committed the embarrassing action, or to whom the embarrassing thing happened, saw the ( usually sole ) witness.

Seeing the woman commit a mistake made me feel like an embarrassed witness.

by but for February 8, 2018

Consumer Self-Isolation

To get consumers to go buy things,

via the media,
corporations make individuals feel

so superior to most people

they feel disgusted of others

and stop interacting with them.

The glorification of movie stars, and the innate—it seems—cognitive bias that makes everyone think they're better than almost everyone else, help induce "consumer self-isolation".

by but for February 23, 2020

Legally Happy

When an individual feels happy doing something legal.

Knowing that playing music after 11:00 P.M. would be make him illegally happy, the teenage boy raised the volume of the music he was listening to and was legally happy knowing that from 7:00 A.M. to 11:00 P.M. the police, enforcing the laws, allowed anyone to play music below 8 decibels.

by but for October 20, 2017

error-impossibilitator

A mechanism which structurally, physically, or electronically blocks human beings from committing an error.

Walls, locks, and barbed-wire are examples of a structural error-impossibilitator. And the way Web pages are programmed to not allow a user to proceed to the next step until the user types their password, for example, is an example of an electronic error-impossibilitator. Condoms and other pregnancy-prevention devices are also error-impossibilitators. However, some error-impossibilitators are not fool-proof. Parents, teachers, mentors, coaches, personal trainers, security guards or bouncers are not error-impossibilitators because—unless they stand in someone's way—they can only help others prevent errors. Error-impossibilitators are of two types, those that can be circumvented, such as by cutting a barbed wire, and those which cannot be circumvented, such as the wall President Trump offered to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. Note that very few error-impossibilitators are 100% reliable because if someone wants to, they can, for example, dig a tunnel under a wall, as people have done to get to the other side.

by but for November 29, 2017

Spaceless Writing

Writing each word starting with a capital letter, not leaving a space between words, and capitalizing the article "a" and starting the following word with a lower-case letter.

The sentence Spot Tricks wrote and which moved him to propose "Spaceless Writing" to UrbanDictionary.com's editors was: "SpacesBetweenWords—AndWordsAndPunctuationMarks—AreUnnecessary." In spaceless writing (SW), the article "a" is capitalized and all the letters of the word following it are written in lower-case. Spaceless Writing saves space, time, energy, and money. It's the best writing style to use on "Twitter".

by but for January 10, 2019

rewording

Rewording and/or not mentioning a word, a person's name, a situation or an event can control or revise reality or the past.

Rewording the phrase, "I want to fuck you" to "I want to make love to you" or "I want to engage in sexual intercourse with you" and expressing the rewritten one produces different expectations and ways of feeling, thinking, and acting.

by but for September 13, 2018