Verboticism: Gobbledekook

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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Deleeted
Created by: QuantumMechanic
Pronunciation: dee lee' ted
Sentence: I deleeted Joe's text: he's driving and texting again.
Etymology: de (undo, as a process) + leet (from l33t)
Intextpret
Created by: leechdude
Pronunciation: in-text-pret
Sentence: It was difficult to intextpret what Diego was trying to say but Joe figured it meant, 'never enter the ladies' washroom.'
Etymology: interpret, text
Leeterate
Created by: badsnudge
Pronunciation: ˈlēt-ə-rət
Sentence: "OMG! ure rly noobi5h. lkjlkjlkj" wrote the daughter to her father, which may have otherwise resulted in hurt feelings, but fortunatly, the father was not leeterate (also l33t3r8), and had no idea what she meant, and only figured that there must have been something wrong with her or his phone.
Etymology: l33t + literate.
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")
Clearmext
Created by: yaelash
Pronunciation: clear-mext
Sentence: he had very good clearmexting abilities. even when his kid wrote him a note while eating dropping icecream and riding the bike at the same time, he could figure out what was written there.
Etymology: the combination of clear+messy+text, the ability to make a clear text out of a messy one.
Decyberscate
Created by: dubld
Pronunciation: dee-sigh-burr-skate
Sentence: He had to decyberscate the the cryptic text.
Etymology: De + Cyber/Cypher + Obfuscate
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COMMENTS:
nice - reminds me of rollerball - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-15: 13:01:00
A good'un that's "c" to the "g"! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-15: 17:34:00
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Slatextition
Created by: garythesnail
Pronunciation: Slu-text-i-zhion
Sentence: When her husband sent her an IM, Jane said 'What is this?' Her husband said I have slatextion. It says: Get eggs, coffee and milk at the store, please.
Etymology: Slang+text+suffix "ition"
Cryptosleuth
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kripˈtō sloōth
Sentence: Debbie needed to become a cryptosleuth. She loved teaching at the Community College but trying to decipher messages from her Generation TXT students put a real strain on her sense of rightness. She and her bff would lol at e-mails from her students.
Etymology: cryptographer (the art of writing or solving codes) + Sleuth (a detective)
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COMMENTS:
LOVE cryptosleuth. I like saying CRYPTO....cryptoanything. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-17: 07:51:00
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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.
Confunderstand
Created by: jkernen1
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The jibberish you texted wasn't easy to confunderstand.
Etymology: confuse + understand
