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In Russian this phenomenon is called "бНОПНЯ" (read "b-nop-nya") and was caused by taking the word "Вопрос" (meaning: "question") in win-1251 encoding and readi
by nephrite 4y ago
In Russian this phenomenon is called "бНОПНЯ" (read "b-nop-nya") and was caused by taking the word "Вопрос" (meaning: "question") in win-1251 encoding and reading it as if it was in KOI-8 encoding.
Also this is called "крокозябры" (read: kro-ko-zya-bry, nonsense word, no translation) especially when reading a binary file in a text viewer.
- kaoD 4y ago> Also this is called "крокозябры" (read: kro-ko-zya-bry In Esperanto there's krokodili[0] (literally "to crocodile") which is used to describe speaking non-Esperanto among esperantists. This was further adapted into Toki Pona as "kokosila". I found it funny how similar they are. [0] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/krokodili https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/krokodili