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Re: Midjourney is alemwjsl

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Post by lifthrasiir »

ta8884844 wrote: post #22
lifthrasiir wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It gets even better! EBS (한국교육방송 Educational Broadcasting System) is using "듄 dyun " as one of its brands, which is one of such mis-transliterated words. Cyworld [EDIT: got confused], a once-popular SNS in Korea, once went by "쵸재깅 chyojaeging " in the similar way. (Both words have absolutely no meaning in Korean, suggesting that it was transliterated from QWERTY to a Hangul keyboard layout.)

I think you meant Cyworld instead of Tistory.

Oops, you are right (edited, thanks!). Tistory was 샨새교 instead.

Re: Midjourney is alemwjsl

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Post by rizky05 »

FeteCommuniste wrote: post #26

The Greek string υοθτθβε (meaningless and nearly unpronounceable, would sound roughly like "eeohtht-thveh") will get you YouTube as the top search result because those letters are what you get from typing "YouTube" with your keyboard set to Greek mode, at least on Windows.

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Re: Midjourney is alemwjsl

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Post by bee_rider »

Adding to the confusion, alemwjsl just almost looks like a plausible name for something. Looking at it, you start parsing, right? “Clearly this is Alex… uh, something… JavaScript Library…”

Re: Midjourney is alemwjsl

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Post by aadhavans »

FeteCommuniste wrote: post #26

The Greek string υοθτθβε (meaningless and nearly unpronounceable, would sound roughly like "eeohtht-thveh") will get you YouTube as the top search result because those letters are what you get from typing "YouTube" with your keyboard set to Greek mode, at least on Windows.

Fascinating. Not only that, it even fetches https://www.youtube.com/feed/gr as the first result, at least on duckduckgo.

Re: Midjourney is alemwjsl

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Post by lifthrasiir »

FeteCommuniste wrote: post #26

The Greek string υοθτθβε (meaningless and nearly unpronounceable, would sound roughly like "eeohtht-thveh") will get you YouTube as the top search result because those letters are what you get from typing "YouTube" with your keyboard set to Greek mode, at least on Windows.

Similarly, Japanese ようつべ translates to yo-u-tu-be (as if the word "Youtube" were read before the Great Vowel Shift) and is often used in place of the proper word.

Re: Midjourney is alemwjsl

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

floren wrote: post #7
Avicebron wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In this case the "writing system" is the set of typos that would occur when someone with an English and Korean keyboard layout forgets to switch off English and keystrokes what they expect would be the Korean. "Midjourney" is "alemwjsl" in that typo writing system

No I mean how do you never come across "transliteration", is that really such an unusual word?

Not imo. It's a word that I would expect any adult who finished college to have seen before.

Re: Midjourney is alemwjsl

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #23

This is very similar to the Google Trends results for "frqnce": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=frqnce&h... You'll notice it peaks every northern hemisphere summer. On French keyboards, Q and A are reversed compared to US keyboards, and every summer, millions of French people go on vacation, and start Google searching for things back home on unfamiliar keyboards. It declines with the rise of the s…

I do this qll the time ! C’est parce que AZERTY, oui.
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