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That's a very weird typo for language. Usually we can tell what word was meant if some letters are missing from what I understand, but for some reason this one

by hak8or 7y ago

That's a very weird typo for language. Usually we can tell what word was meant if some letters are missing from what I understand, but for some reason this one was surprisingly bad.

asveikau 7y ago
I felt there was enough context to parse correctly because: - Spectre is a well known vulnerability in speculative execution - I know that speculative execution bugs had compiler workarounds involving how you do your jumps (retpoline etc.) - "language implementer" is a common synonym or overlapping term with "compiler author"
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- cmeiklejohn 7y ago
  oh, very clever
  - cmeiklejohn 7y ago
    wait, we're making a joke about "lanugage" being a result of out-of-order execution, right?
pure-awesome 7y ago
I literally didn't realise there was a mistake until I read your comment. It's just two adjacent letters that have been swapped. I certainly understand how someone might read 'lanugage' and be thrown off by it, but I don't think it's as objectively terrible, or even weird, a typo as you're making it out to be.
- Kaiyou 7y ago
  If you look at it in isolation, it's really bad. In the context of a sentence, though, I didn't notice it. OP must be a slow reader.
- stcredzero 7y ago
  "LANugage" would be a perfectly cromulent name for a LAN network optimization and metrics tool.
  - pure-awesome 7y ago
    People would misspell it all the time, though.
brigandish 7y ago
> Usually we can tell what word was meant It's called typoglycaemia. I actually wrote a library[0] the other day that will jumble up text in typoglycaemic fashion, mainly because I was bored but also because I want to try it out when having arguments <cough> sorry, healthy debate on social media <cough, cough> as (apparently[1]) it changes the mode of thinking the reader uses: > In a final study, Gervais and Norenzayan used an even more subtle way of activating analytic thinking: by having participants fill out a survey measuring their religious beliefs that was printed in either clear font or font that was difficult to read. Prior research has shown that difficult-to-read font promotes analytic thinking by forcing participants to slow down and think more carefully about the meaning of what they are reading. The researchers found that participants who filled out a survey that was printed in unclear font expressed less belief as compared to those who filled out the same survey in the clear font. [0] Typoglycaemic https://github.com/yb66/typoglycaemic https://github.com/yb66/typoglycaemic [1] How Critical Thinkers Lose Their Faith in God, Daisy Grewal, May 1, 2012, Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-critical-thinkers-lose-faith-god/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-critical-thin... Edit: one day I'll remember which bits of markdown work on HN. That day is not today.

by hak8or 7y ago

That's a very weird typo for language. Usually we can tell what word was meant if some letters are missing from what I understand, but for some reason this one was surprisingly bad.

asveikau 7y ago

I felt there was enough context to parse correctly because: - Spectre is a well known vulnerability in speculative execution - I know that speculative execution bugs had compiler workarounds involving how you do your jumps (retpoline etc.) - "language implementer" is a common synonym or overlapping term with "compiler author"

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cmeiklejohn 7y ago
oh, very clever
- cmeiklejohn 7y ago
  wait, we're making a joke about "lanugage" being a result of out-of-order execution, right?

pure-awesome 7y ago

I literally didn't realise there was a mistake until I read your comment. It's just two adjacent letters that have been swapped. I certainly understand how someone might read 'lanugage' and be thrown off by it, but I don't think it's as objectively terrible, or even weird, a typo as you're making it out to be.

Kaiyou 7y ago
If you look at it in isolation, it's really bad. In the context of a sentence, though, I didn't notice it. OP must be a slow reader.
stcredzero 7y ago
"LANugage" would be a perfectly cromulent name for a LAN network optimization and metrics tool.
- pure-awesome 7y ago
  People would misspell it all the time, though.

brigandish 7y ago

> Usually we can tell what word was meant It's called typoglycaemia. I actually wrote a library[0] the other day that will jumble up text in typoglycaemic fashion, mainly because I was bored but also because I want to try it out when having arguments <cough> sorry, healthy debate on social media <cough, cough> as (apparently[1]) it changes the mode of thinking the reader uses: > In a final study, Gervais and Norenzayan used an even more subtle way of activating analytic thinking: by having participants fill out a survey measuring their religious beliefs that was printed in either clear font or font that was difficult to read. Prior research has shown that difficult-to-read font promotes analytic thinking by forcing participants to slow down and think more carefully about the meaning of what they are reading. The researchers found that participants who filled out a survey that was printed in unclear font expressed less belief as compared to those who filled out the same survey in the clear font. [0] Typoglycaemic https://github.com/yb66/typoglycaemic https://github.com/yb66/typoglycaemic [1] How Critical Thinkers Lose Their Faith in God, Daisy Grewal, May 1, 2012, Scientific American https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-critical-thinkers-lose-faith-god/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-critical-thin... Edit: one day I'll remember which bits of markdown work on HN. That day is not today.