The blog of novelist Alis Hawkins, a woman described by her own son as 'strange but interesting...'
Wednesday 29 October 2008
Code word thingies
Is it just me, or have the 'I'm not a spammer' code word thingies on Blogger turned from random jumbles into vaguely credible words? They suddenly seem far easier to get to grips with and type.
Their semi-intelligibility seems to me to come and go in waves that last a few days. But the human mind is a pattern-seeking machine, so it often finds trends where there are none. Or I do.
The verification code for this comment is "kiineys," which isn't too believable as a word. Unless we drop in a glottal stop, as is common in sci-fi/fantasy (or Hawai'ian!), and render it as Ki'ineys. (Princess, tribe, or place name? You decide.)
3 comments:
I'd noticed the same - although the verification word for this post is "somsms" which is at least one vowel short of easy memorisation!
Drat - maybe their algorithm's faulty. At least this one's distin!
Their semi-intelligibility seems to me to come and go in waves that last a few days. But the human mind is a pattern-seeking machine, so it often finds trends where there are none. Or I do.
The verification code for this comment is "kiineys," which isn't too believable as a word. Unless we drop in a glottal stop, as is common in sci-fi/fantasy (or Hawai'ian!), and render it as Ki'ineys. (Princess, tribe, or place name? You decide.)
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