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Re:Typing Is Hard by scubbo on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @12:43AM (#26163129)
> infloop

I had never seen this word before, and while I assume it's probably short for "infinite loop", I initially parsed it as "in-floop", as opposed to "out-floop".

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Re:Typing Is Hard by skrebbel on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @10:42AM (#26167596)
Yep, correct! Thanks :-)

Btw i love "out-floop" and I'm going to try to find applications for it.

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Re:Typing Is Hard by scubbo on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:18PM (#26175713)
Perhaps via reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlooP_and_FlooP ?

EDIT: though, in that context, I would parse "out-floop" as a transitive verb meaning "to FlooP more, to a greater extent, or faster, than <something else>", rendering its opposite actually "under-floop".

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Re:Typing Is Hard by skrebbel on Saturday February 20, 2021 @03:34PM (#26207680)
"He out-flooped the infloop with bloop" (which would be pretty impressive)
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