Verboticism: Jumbleguya
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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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
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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Decryptatext
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: de-cryp-ta-text
Sentence: Jason could easily decryptatext his boss' practically unreadable messages.
Etymology: de(undo) crypt (hidden message) text (words)
Cypherfathom
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sīfərfaðəm
Sentence: Harry spent his career breaking coded messages in his job at the NSA. Despite this he has trouble trying to cypherfathom emails and texts from his kids.
Etymology: cypher (a secret or disguised way of writing) + fathom (understand)
Jumbleguya
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: jum/bl/gi/a
Sentence: The new boss seemed to have his own language when it came to texting. At first everyone was nervous. It wasn't until someone made a call down to the mailroom where Simon the jumbleguya worked. He could unscramble eggs.
Etymology: play on Jambalaya
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COMMENTS:
Twenty lashes with a wet noodle, Lumina. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-14: 02:34:00
Youch! (mix of Yummy and Ouch) :) - lumina, 2008-10-14: 10:04:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-14: 13:20:00
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Textcrapolate
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: text-cra-poh-late
Sentence: Although the message may have been written in Sanskrit, Bob was able to textcrapolate that he was to pk up da kdz aftr wrk.
Etymology: text, crap, extrapolate
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COMMENTS:
good one purple - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-15: 08:55:00
Nice bit of cyberdazzle! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-15: 17:39:00
y, thnk ya! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-15: 18:58:00
gets my vote :) - badsnudge, 2007-11-15: 22:25:00
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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)
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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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")
Confunderstand
Created by: jkernen1
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The jibberish you texted wasn't easy to confunderstand.
Etymology: confuse + understand