Monday, February 25. 2008
That word is:
Found this today on The Daily WTF (i.e. "Worse Than Failure" - a site for geeks to post "strange but true" programming stories)...
Read more for the answer...
clbuttic.Found this today on The Daily WTF (i.e. "Worse Than Failure" - a site for geeks to post "strange but true" programming stories)...
The Clbuttic MistakeTook me a while to figure out just what "clbuttic" means, but I finally did.
Browsing through a web archive of some old computer club conversations, I ran across this sentence:
"Apple made the clbuttic mistake of forcing out their visionary - I mean, look at what NeXT has been up to!"
Hmm. "clbuttic".
Google "clbuttic" - thousands of hits!
There's someone who call his car 'clbuttic'.
There are "Clbuttic Steam Engine" message boards.
Webster's dictionary - no help.
Hmm. What can this be?
HINT: People who make buttumptions about their regex scripts, will be embarbutted when they repeat this mbuttive mistake.
Read more for the answer...
The answer is actually explained in the following Wikipedia definition for a different non-word: "medireview"...
And some automated process somewhere has mangled "classic" to "clbuttic" in a misguided and half-assed (that's right, I said it
) attempt to make the Web safe from potty-mouths like me.
Is that even Consbreastutional?!?
Medireview was an accidental non-word for medieval, created in 2001 as the result of an issue with Yahoo!'s email service.So "medieval" was auto-mangled to "medireview".
In 2001 Yahoo! silently introduced an email filter which changed some strings in HTML emails considered to be dangerous.
Eval → review
And some automated process somewhere has mangled "classic" to "clbuttic" in a misguided and half-assed (that's right, I said it
) attempt to make the Web safe from potty-mouths like me.Is that even Consbreastutional?!?
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