Spambot of the day
Word-coining bot:
Hmm it looks like your site ate my first comment (it was etlmerexy long) so I guess I’ll just sum it up and say, do you have any tips and hints for rookie blog writers?
Here’s the first: it would be etlmerexy good if you used words already in existence.
This may be a good place to post a “heads-up”: The latest Leftist meme in academia is this catch-phrase, “Rampant Individualism.”
Look for it soon in a panel discussion near you.
I spotted this one in three different academic books I was editing this spring and summer (I work for one of the most prestigious academic publishers), and recognized it as a Leftmeme immediately.
Rampant. Individualism. Only the American variety is scorned, of course.
They’re getting bolder and bolder with their Kulturkampf.
Your bot reminded me of this:
“Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?”
“etlmerexy”
Can I have the word origin please?
Can you use it in a sentence?
Oh, wait, I’m not on the Scripps Spelling Bee blog?! My mistake.
For whatever it’s worth, Neo, I did a Google search for “etlmerexy” and even though all the results were this same spam blog comment, neo-neocon was listed first. yea!
@carl in atlanta: I think you’re right! Extremely would fit 😀
Are you sure it wasn’t Art?
yup…
besides, if you search it, only 5 hits come up…
weird combination of representative subjects…
neo’s blog
Israel forum jblog
thinking out aloud (blog)
economic scuttlebutt
wedding ceremony tips at i pronounce you
zahung forum (vietnam)
only one tried to use it in a proper sentence, the others were the spambot
“I am 5′ 10 and 200 lbs, my feet are etlmerexy flat (no arch) and I have an outward pronation.”
i have really searched hard to find it, even using soundex, and adding a letter to the front..
The ‘bot’s i-Thingy prolly has an ‘etimerexy’ APP.
It’s a mark of how good our brains are at decoding language that most everybody knew what that word really was. (As carl in atlanta points out.)
Many years ago, I did a search for “thriteen” (by mistake) and came up with thousands of hits. Today all I get is a measly 87,400. And I had to convince Google that I means what I spelled.
double-plus etlmerexy