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Ghost Words and Mountweazels: Mistakes in Dictionaries and Encyclopedias
- tdeck 11y agoThis is great. Reminds me of mondegreens, another phenomenon of mistaken language: > A mondegreen is a mishearing or misinterpretation of a phrase as a result of near-homophony, in a way that gives it a new meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen
- nvader 11y agoThinking of Mountweazels and trap streets, I wonder if a similar concept exists in software. Maybe patents with non-obvious but critical flaws or useless embellishments put into the documents, or interfaces with extra fields or methods to trap wholesale copying.
- reacweb 11y agoOne problem with made up word like "esquivalience" is that many people loves new nice words appearing in dictionary. Maybe, dictionnary.com has not commit a copyright violation, but just followed a hype.