New York - April 14, 2006

Techie Talk

Lexicon XVIII

Behold the latest installment of the DailyCandy Lexicon. For conversation with an extra byte (ba-dum-dum!), add these to your hard drive.

A.I.M.
v. To actively ignore messages from annoying chat buddies while blaming the server for the lost connection.

bee break
n. The act of sneaking off to the bathroom in the middle of dinner to scroll through one’s BlackBerry.

block-listed
adj. Permanently banned from all modes of virtual communication.

case
v. To use the jarring style of ALL CAPITAL LETTERS in an e-mail. Also known as virtual shouting. (Dude, quit casing me!)

e-mnesia
n. The condition of having sent or received an e-mail and having no recollection of it whatsoever.

IMonogamy
n. The practice of chatting into only one window at a time. (C’mon Jane, it’s 2006. No one’s imonogamous anymore.)

overshared server
n. A person who consistently hits “Reply All” when he/she should hit “Reply,” thus subjecting everyone on the e-mail list to an irrelevant personal note.

textual frustration
n. A late-night text exchange that fails to result in old-fashioned lip-locking.

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