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Textlexia 

1: The accidental use of "text language" when writing manually, or composing a formal e-mail
2: the inability to spell words correctly when first learning to use T9 predictive text or other predictive texting modes.
Definition One:

Doctor to patient:
Dear patient,
Just a friendly remindr. Please be sure 2 take 50mg of the medication I prescribed to you w/ plenty of water.
Sincerely, Doc

Definition Two:

Sender: "Hi, how's evrythg going?"
Reciever: "What's 'evrythg' mean?"
Sender: "Sorry, I have a mild case of textlexia."
Textlexia by Lee Brody March 6, 2009
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Textlexic 

When someone is texting on there cell phone and puts in the wrong letters in the wrong spots and or can not find a letter at all.
So i sent her( i think your a hot girl)
and i ended up sending her (i think your a ho girl), damn im textlexic.
Textlexic by Mike Etnies Wolfe February 9, 2009

Textlexia 

A person who has severe trouble remembering other people's names and is a terrible speller when texting. Similar to Dyslexia.
John:(texting) "hey whats up?"
Larry:(also texting) "nb Mike. hgt?
John: "you must have textlexia."
Textlexia by laxislife19 April 16, 2009

textlexic 

Someone who constantly misspells words while texting.
I can never understand her texts, she must be textlexic.
textlexic by shamrock2157 September 5, 2013

textlexia 

An inability to compose an interpretable text message due to outside pressures or emotional constraints.
"Man, sorry about that. My textlexia's flared up "
textlexia by sparksneon January 7, 2007

Textlexic 

adjective & noun • a person, or the act of being, inflicted with textlexia, the disorder characterized mainly by the reversal of letters in an acronym or the inappropriate substitution of characters in an emoticon. Often is the result of fast or drunk texting. Can also occur while driving and text messaging.
Example 1: "2day my mom said my BFF was hot. WFT?"
"I meant WTF. I'm so textlexic sometimes"

Example 2: "I so sorry 2 txt dump U but if I call U i will cry and start cutting myself again :)"
"... I mean :( not :). stupid textlexia"
Textlexic by RedSpade October 8, 2009
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