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Just putting the links for other fellow HN users and spare them a few seconds while searching for the terms :-) fnord, a word to indicate irony/humor - https:/
by NKosmatos 5y ago
Just putting the links for other fellow HN users and spare them a few seconds while searching for the terms :-)
fnord, a word to indicate irony/humor - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fnord
Baader–Meinhof phenomenon or frequency illusion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
- Arnt 5y agoUhm, that's not what it indicates. The fnords aren't funny or anything at all, they little things that go unnoticed. They're around you but you never see them, even though they (may) have meaning or effect on you. Like parts of links that you click on but don't really see.
- yreg 5y agoSeems legit, since when I read that article I thought to myself – weird, I have spent a lot of time on the internet and I don't think I ever encountered this word.
- Arnt 5y agoIts heyday was before the web. The book is from the seventies. I expect many, perhaps most people who were on usenet in the late eighties knew the word.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoOr any Robert Anton Wilson fans (there are dozens of us, etc).