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[flowery_twat]

There's this 'why I am a dork' meme thing making the rounds, right. And, like, I hardly need to make a *list* of reasons for you, do I? But here's proof #3792 just in case:

So I'm reading blythely's christen. And in my defence I'm half way through my second glass of pinot noir. Just for some background, it turns out that although roughly speaking we do

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[traveller]

the part wot makes you a dork is not that your eye drifted over a word and made it something else, it's the fact that you can explain the phenomenon using the correct scientific terms.

just so we're clear.

[flowery_twat]

Oh, absolutely. It's the fact that I immediately thought 'erroneous parafoveal preview' and began mentally calculating the precise levenshtein distance between 'crumbles' and 'cucumbers'. And very nearly footnoted this post with the appropriate journal references.

We're very, very clear. :-)

[traveller]

what the motherfuck is leviathon distance?

[flowery_twat]

It's an algorithm for calculating the extent to which two letter strings are formally identical. Sounds fancy pants, but it's very similar to what you do when you play those word games where you transform 'arse' into 'head' in the shortest number of steps.

So, for example, the L distance between Linnaea and Rockstar is 7, because that's the number of characters you have to change into something else to get from one to the other.

And boy isn't that going to come in handy in your daily life. Heee.

[traveller]

linnie.

[flowery_twat]

yis!

[traveller]

you're a DORK.

[flowery_twat]

I *know*! Isn't it exciting?!?!

dork
pork
port
tort
toit*
twit
twat

* toit: intr. To totter, walk feebly or unsteadily. (Sc. and north. dial.)

[traveller]

and i never played that game. i was too busy eating mud as a kid, i think.

[flowery_twat]

Mud! I also ate much mud. And cat food. And lip balm. And paste. Good times!

[traveller]

yes. i do fondly remember bark, as well.

[msilverstar]

I was gonna say that. But not as well.