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by troad 1307 days ago
I feel like I’m missing something obvious here, feel free to make fun of my obliviousness, but for what would it be misinterpreted? Post-modern chat?

Edit: I see! Thank you for the responses!

4 comments

Parent is referring to kerning [0]

"Pomo" can appear as "porno" with some fonts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerning

I sometimes mistake 'rn' for 'm'. Perhaps they meant that?
how the letter "m" in "pomochat" can look like "rn" when kerned.