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.

3 comments:

Tim Stretton said...

I'd noticed the same - although the verification word for this post is "somsms" which is at least one vowel short of easy memorisation!

Alis said...

Drat - maybe their algorithm's faulty. At least this one's distin!

David Isaak said...

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.)