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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

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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)

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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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Geekcoder

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: geek code er

Sentence: Josh could unravel any online message...he was a geekcoder of the top degree. If he had of lived 60 years earlier, he would have been called (The Man Called Incryted`.

Etymology: Geek (nerd, computer whiz) & Coder (someone who can encrypt/decrypt secret messages) Wordplay on Decoder (translater of encrypted messages)

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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.

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Textamessology

Created by: LotusB

Pronunciation: text-a-mess-ology

Sentence: Thank goodness Lisa's so good at textamessology, or she'd never understand her sister's messages!

Etymology: Text (words/wording) + a (a) + mess (untidy/jumble) + ology (science/branch of knowledge) = Textamessology

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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?

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