Verboticism: Slatextition
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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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.
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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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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Decyber
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: dee-sigh-bah
Sentence: when i texted 'flz 88 grm nb h5g nnzz' to my friend i was confident he would be able to decyber it
Etymology: decipher, cyber
Dialext
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: di-a-leh-xt
Sentence: "OMG" never flashed through Kimberly's mind the way it flashed through the fingers of her niece, Destiny on the popular social networking site, facespace. Having joined in order to seal her place as the cool aunt, she had been frustrated by her inability to understand the dialext. LOL did not mean "lots of love" nor did MILTF mean "My independent life that's full" and this lead to many misunderstandings.
Etymology: dialect (language specific to a group or region) + text (hint: you're reading it)
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COMMENTS:
vg - Nosila, 2010-03-11: 22:49:00
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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.
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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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)
Dyslexicon
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: diss leks ik ohn
Sentence: he was a walking dyslexicon, the sweet spell of success.
Etymology: dyslexic lexicon
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COMMENTS:
The dyslexicon in your sentence is a noun. - buffalocargo, 2015-08-21: 09:03:00
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Educe
Created by: verbotomer
Pronunciation: ˈiːˌdjuːs
Sentence: "I educed that he meant, 'see you later' when he sent, 'cUL8rrrr11111!!!'"
Etymology: similar meaning to the original educe, but with the stress on the first syllable, modelled on Internet-related words such as email, ebusiness, etc. It can also be spelled 'e-duce'.
