Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
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Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
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Re: Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
#2After a month I bring a good news.
Re: Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
#3The edit distance form work to zork is 1.
For this, and because of tab completions (perhaps tab completions post-date zork, but nonetheless) I find the work:zork story compelling. I have used the first letter is replaced by "z" trick many times (z-tab, done!), and that pre-dated any contemplation of the zork mystery.
Re: Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
#4This article has some research into possible origins of the name: https://nickm.com/post/2010/01/a-note-on-the-word-zork/comme...
Re: Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
#5The edit distance form work to zork is 1. For this, and because of tab completions (perhaps tab completions post-date zork, but nonetheless) I find the work:zork story compelling. I have used the first letter is replaced by "z" trick many times (z-tab, done!), and that pre-dated any contemplation of the zork mystery.
Ah, but there are plenty of folk etymologies which, although they make a lot of logical sense, aren't true.
Re: Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
#6The edit distance form work to zork is 1. For this, and because of tab completions (perhaps tab completions post-date zork, but nonetheless) I find the work:zork story compelling. I have used the first letter is replaced by "z" trick many times (z-tab, done!), and that pre-dated any contemplation of the zork mystery.
Also, W and Z are switched in the AZERTY keyboard. So maybe someone mistyped work on the wrong layout??
Re: Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
#7The edit distance form work to zork is 1. For this, and because of tab completions (perhaps tab completions post-date zork, but nonetheless) I find the work:zork story compelling. I have used the first letter is replaced by "z" trick many times (z-tab, done!), and that pre-dated any contemplation of the zork mystery.
Also, W and Z are switched in the AZERTY keyboard. So maybe someone mistyped work on the wrong layout??
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Re: Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
#8After a month I bring a good news.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zork&diff=prev&ol...
might be a more informative link to the specific change, btw.
Re: Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
#9The edit distance form work to zork is 1. For this, and because of tab completions (perhaps tab completions post-date zork, but nonetheless) I find the work:zork story compelling. I have used the first letter is replaced by "z" trick many times (z-tab, done!), and that pre-dated any contemplation of the zork mystery.
Also, W and Z are switched in the AZERTY keyboard. So maybe someone mistyped work on the wrong layout??
Certainly sounds plausible. Most of the time the first thing I do after I log in to a terminal is "cd work." And if I blundered that on a french keyboard at some point it might pop into my head as a funny thing to name a project.
Re: Zork name origin got an update on Wikipedia
#10https://www.gricer.com/tmrc/dictionary1959.html
---The words defined in this dictionary are the property of the Tech
Model Railroad Club of M. I. T. and all rights to use and define
these words are strictly reserved.---
Another of David Sawyer's sound effects, which I reinterpreted as a colorful variant of "scorch."