Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers

Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers by wrboyce on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:49AM (#20623996)

I'm going to hazard a guess that @ggambetta is making a veiled reference to "RAS Syndrome".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome

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Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers by benj111 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:47AM (#20624273)

Off topic, but is there a name for names that are diagnostic or demonstrative of the thing. Eg you can't say 'lisp' with a lisp, have trouble spelling dyslexia with dyslexia. 'hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia' is the fear of long words, TLA (three letter acronym) and the above obviously.

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Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers by this_is_not_you on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @08:52AM (#20624658)

I think you are looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word

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Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers by benj111 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:12AM (#20624816)

Perhaps? The examples given seem much more limited to the qualities of the word itself, I'm not sure the lisp example would fit under that banner.

That page does link to 'Ostensive definition' though:

"An ostensive definition conveys the meaning of a term by pointing out examples"

So perhaps 'Auto-ostensive'?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostensive_definition

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Re:Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers by ggambetta on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @07:39AM (#20624238)

Yep :) Didn't know it was called that.

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