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DEFINITION: v., To grasp the meaning of muddled texts like blog posts, emails and text messages where standard grammatical or spelling conventions have been ignored. n., The ability to read and understand confused or poorly written messages.
Verboticisms
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Degibber
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: dijibər
Sentence: Claire is the perfect personal assistant to Mr. BigPants. She is the only one who can degibber his cryptic e-mails and memos. Most agree that his notes could be created by a chipmunk dancing on a keyboard. They also believe that most of the great ideas that come out of the head office are really generated by Claire. She just smiles and gives credit to her boss.
Etymology: de (denoting removal or reversal) + gibber (speak rapidly and unintelligibly)
Ntrprt
Created by: gregflynn
Pronunciation:
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COMMENTS:
Noun: Ntrprt8n - gregflynn, 2007-11-15: 00:09:00
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Jumblreader
Created by: emilylind
Pronunciation: Say jumble then reader
Sentence: He's a amazing jumblreader !
Etymology:
Textliterate
Created by: MithrilShadow
Pronunciation: tekst-ˈli-tə-ˌrāt
Sentence: Joel had to textliterate the message from his boss's strange grammar form to English, in order for any one in the office to understand what he wanted them to do.
Etymology: Text: the original words and form of a written or printed work Transliterate: to represent or spell in the characters of another alphabet
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COMMENTS:
I love this word ! Thanks for contributing ! - emilylind, 2007-11-15: 20:39:00
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Interpretext
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Inter-pret-ex-t
Sentence: Jane's mum just couldn't get to grips with the predictive text on her cellphone, luckily Jane was an expert in interpretext, so when her mum's muddled messages came through she understood exactly what she was trying to say.
Etymology: Interpret (Understand the meaning of, translate) + Text (Written or printed words, message left on cellphone) ORIGIN Latin textus from texere 'weave' = Interpretext)
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COMMENTS:
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-14: 13:21:00
Very clever. - Mustang, 2008-10-14: 17:22:00
Intuitive and eminently pronounceable word! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 07:48:00
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Textcavator
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: text/cav/ay/tor
Sentence: When archaeologists unearth blackberries in the future they will need textcavators to decipher the messages.
Etymology: excavator + text
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COMMENTS:
Cute word...I dig it. - Nosila, 2008-10-14: 20:13:00
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Texhume
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: tex/hume
Sentence: His job was to texhume cryptic messages that had been buried in emails.
Etymology: TEXHUME - verb from TEXT (a unit of connected writing) + EXHUME (to revive, or restore; bring to light)
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COMMENTS:
Good word - Nosila, 2008-10-14: 20:14:00
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Syntextify
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: sĭn-těks-tə-fī'
Sentence: After only two weeks of dating, Melissa was able to syntextify Jared's messages by supplementalizing them with proper grammar and spelling. She supposed it was worth the effort -- all the other girls thought Jared was cute, and he certainly was popular.
Etymology: syntax (Greek, syntaxis "a putting together or in order") + text (Late Latin, textus "written account") + [identi]fy (Medieval Latin, identificāre "to make to resemble")
Deciphetext
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: di-sahy-fe-text
Sentence: She knew what days to steer clear of her boss, she intuitively could tell how messed up he was by her inability to deciphetext his morning messages.
Etymology: decipher + text
Decybphering
Created by: hendrixius
Pronunciation: dee-sibe-fur-ing
Sentence: I am having trouble decybphering this text message; WTF does MLFJJUICK 4 NOLK mean?
Etymology: decipher and cyber
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger. Thank you Tigger! ~ James
lumina - 2008-10-14: 00:53:00
jumbleguya
lumina - 2008-10-14: 00:58:00
Sorry bout that folks. Put my word in the comment area by accident.
I never know WHERE my comments are gonna pop up. Life IS uncertainty, I guess.
See what I mean?
I sure do!
lumina - 2008-10-16: 19:54:00
Yes, comments...you add them and just hope they show up where you thought. Since this seems a good a place as any AND since I waited long enough to not "jump the gun" like the other time I thought I had the winning word... "I would like to thank The Academy, the cast and crew, Kraft service, all little people I stepped on to get here, of course God, Jesus and my parents...for if it wasn't for them I would be here." *music kicks in...dancing guy with hook comes out from behind curtains..." "OH! I have to hurry!!! You like me! You really, really like me!" (classis Sally Field Oscar moment...but you guys knew that, right?) :)
Today's definition was suggested by Tigger. Thank you Tigger. ~ James