habitually and
intentionally leaving typos intact in a message transmitted by
electronic means, such as in a mobile phone's text message, or e-mail. Often aided by predictive text
technologies such as T9. Being spanty is often done to bewilder the unsuspecting, or for personal amusement.
Molly:
I'm going to moth the movie and
the library today.
Molly:
Of course, by "moth," I meant to type "both," but I left it in there because "moth" is awesome.
Jeff: You're so spanty.
Molly: Yeah, I'm book like that.