Verboticism: Enigmasize
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.
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Cryptograsp
Created by: xirtam
Pronunciation: krip-tuh-grahsp
Sentence: See if you can cryptograsp what I am typing. "You don't hvae to crroeclty sepll erevyhting jsut hvae all the ltteres, and hvae the fsrit and lsat lteetr in the crreoct poistoin." Pretty cool.
Etymology: crypto from cryptogram, A piece of writing in code or cipher. + grasp, mental hold or capacity; power to understand.
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COMMENTS:
Nice! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-15: 19:00:00
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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: text + exhume
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COMMENTS:
K-rad ! c u l8r - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-15: 17:37:00
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Texticologist
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: tex-ti-col-o-gist
Sentence: Having twin 15 year old daughters, and a 13 year old son qualified Sara as an expert texticologist and she was often called as an expert witness in court proceedings where text interpretation was needed.
Etymology: lexicology:the study of words and their meanings + text: + (-ologist-science or study of)texting: sending a text message
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COMMENTS:
good one - Nosila, 2010-03-11: 16:12:00
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Gobbledegeek
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: GOB-ehl-de-geek
Sentence: As are all his associates, Lyndon is a total gobbledegeek who can instantly decipher the garbled lingo and abbreviations used by those who textmessage and post on blogs and forums.
Etymology: Blend of 'gobbledegook' (language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand) and 'geek' (one who is knowledgeable about current technology)
Demungle
Created by: MrDave2176
Pronunciation: dee-MUN-gul
Sentence: The message was almost hopelessly unreadable until Jeremy stepped in to demungle it.
Etymology: "to Mung" is a hacker term which means to alter in some negative way. A mungle message would be altered to be unreadable. To demungle would make it whole again, right?
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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Lingjist
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: ling/jist
Sentence: A talented lingist can unravel the meaning of any text.
Etymology: linguist + gist
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COMMENTS:
Good one Porsche! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-15: 19:03:00
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Secretalent
Created by: perkolady
Pronunciation: sec-ra-TAL-ent
Sentence: "Hmm, forward that message to Sylvia--she's got amazing secretalent."
Etymology: From your standard secretary, nurse, or other aid-giving person's miraculous ability to read their superiors' chickenscratch.
Textititis
Created by: sipsoccer
Pronunciation: (Text-a-ty-tus)
Sentence: What the heck? You got textititis or something? I can't read your texts.
Etymology: Text: what you do or see. ititis: diseased
Unscramblagram
Created by: SpaceCadet
Pronunciation: uhn-SKRAM-AH-grAHm
Sentence: - "Wow man, you can unscramblagram that? I can't make heads or tails of this egarbage!" Johnny said. - "Yeah dude, I'm a regular unscramblagrammer... I guess I'm just good at getting into the sender's state of mind, you know?" Mike replied. - "Whoah..." said Johnny.
Etymology: 1. "unscramble": (verb) to restore (a scrambled message) to intelligible form; "unscrambler" (noun), a person or thing that unscrambles. 2. "agram", from "agrammatical" = "a-" (prefix) not + "grammatical" (adj.) conforming to the rules of grammar
