Neoglossary

Typathy

— noun • Indifference or disinterest towards good typography and thoughtful typographic design choices in a project or product, or even as a general attitude. | Company XYZ’s website is characterised by a distinct typathy, making it difficult to read and generally not quite accessible.

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Banalyst

— noun • Self-appointed analyst evidently lacking the necessary insight and skills for their profession. This lack of abilities is apparent in their online contributions, showing their poor job at predicting outcomes in the technology industry in particular. | According to some banalysts, the Apple iPhone 4S should have been a fiasco. (Credit for the inspiration goes to Erik Vorhes and Grant Hutchinson.)

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Awfun

— adj. • Particularly irritated by the fun other people around are having. | I invited him at the party last night but he was just awfun all the time. || Can also be used to summarise the concept that something can be fun for others but not for the speaker: You can laugh all you want, I think it’s awfun.

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Efframeness

— noun • The subtle, creeping feeling of being purposefully kept out of a circle or network of people.

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Goog

— noun • Someone greedy but without the necessary brilliance or power to obtain what they are after. Some sort of loser with a purpose.

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Fanboy

Marco Arment proposes:

fan•boy |ˈfanˌboi|

noun

1. informal derogatory: a term used to describe people who bought a product that competes with the one you bought, which is probably more popular than your choice, for reasons that you wish to discredit or diminish because you’re secretly afraid or upset that you made the wrong choice.

ORIGIN from fan + boy.

(Source: marco)

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ellipsism

Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows:

n. sadness that you’ll never be able to know how history will turn out, that you’ll dutifully pass on the joke of being alive without ever learning the punchline—the name of the beneficiary of all human struggle, the sum of the final payout of every investment ever made in the future—which may not suit your sense of humor anyway and will probably involve how many people it takes to change a lightbulb.

Chartcoal

— noun • A chart or infographic which is unclear, poorly executed, confusing or even deliberately misleading.

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Pristeen

— noun • An adolescent boy or girl feigning innocence and naïveté.

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