I was quite amused by this word that I found on Word Spy.
My only question is this: Are thumbo's, like art, defined by the eye - or brain - of the beholder? My parents have tried for years to successfully integrate txtspeak and chatspeak into their phone texts, and fail horribly every time. They abbreviate the wrong words, or try to abbreviate already shortened accepted txtspeak text into something impossible to read, pronounce, or understand.
Does this make it a thumbo? It does from my perspective. However, they claim they can understand their texts.
