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Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by mastazi on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:00AM (#24258130)
"actmally rdrtable execmtable" that's more or less how it reads to someone who knows the Greek alphabet :-D

(I might be partially wrong because I've studied Greek many years ago and my memory is not good)

Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by hvenev on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:02AM (#24258139)
It's somehow worse than "toys ya us".
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by tgb on Monday August 24, 2020 @07:09AM (#24259495)
No that's a reversed-R which happens to look identical like a Cyrillic letter. I don't think that's a problem any more than getting confused and trying to pronounce a circle in a logo as an "o". In contrast, the text here is trying to look Greek but doing it poorly.
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by btilly on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:34AM (#24261628)
That Cyrillic letter happens to be pronounced "ya".
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by augustk on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:09AM (#24258765)
Or Stack Overflow's "We are less than three people who code."
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by BrandonM on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @12:40AM (#24268164)
This comment is the top Google result for "stack overflow we are less than three people who code". It's not clear to me what you mean.
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by mastazi on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @04:17AM (#24269192)
I think it refers to this[1] page with the header "We <3 people who code" where <3 is supposed to be a heart.

(Probably people from the "post-emoji generation" can't recognise <3 as well as us old people ahah)

[1] https://pics.onsizzle.com/stack-overflow-where-dev-x-https-s...

Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by keiferski on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:27AM (#24258531)
Or Nee (Nine Inch Nails: NIИ)
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by api on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:28AM (#24258885)
Whoa... that means Trent Reznor is a Knight who says Nee!
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by oleganza on Monday August 24, 2020 @08:16AM (#24259857)
another offence is using sigma (∑) as a stylized "E" or uppercase lambda (Λ) as "A" (see NASA logo).
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by numerobis on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:36AM (#24258581)
Really confusing that they use mu when upsilon is available...
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by dspillett on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:26AM (#24258868)
Not really confusing when you assume the intention is to look clever - the more different the letterform you find while it still being recognisable as the one you are replacing, the more exaggerated your effect is without further reducing readability.

(Yes, I know this isn't "just to try look clever", ala 1337-speak, and is trying to make a relevant reference to the cross audience understanding the is relevant to a cross platform executable, but the point still stands about choosing less similar but still similar enough glyphs)

Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by hellectronic on Monday August 24, 2020 @03:59AM (#24258393)
Γορ μεμορι ις στιλλ γκουτ
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by mastazi on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:52AM (#24259041)
LOL some high-end Anglo-Greek right there :-D thanks
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by Koshkin on Monday August 24, 2020 @11:45AM (#24261729)
Shouldn’t it be ‘γκουvт’?
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by StavrosK on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:48AM (#24259009)
That's an English p, not a Greek ρ.
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by mastazi on Monday August 24, 2020 @07:55PM (#24266819)
you are right, I assumed it was a rho but on closer inspection it's a lowercase p
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε by Gerrish on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:34AM (#24258566)
actmally r-thee-ta-blae execm-ta-blae