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hairofadog
1283 days ago
Ha. Similarly a friend once told me that in days of yore she worked at a place where “postits” (as in,
will you please order some more postits
) was automatically transformed to “post*ts” in their intra-office chat system.
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teh_klev
1283 days ago
See also the "Scunthorpe Problem":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
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hairofadog
1283 days ago
I hadn't heard of this; thanks! Also made me think of Jimmy Kimmel's
Unnecessary Censorship
bit.
link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem