Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade

Re:Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade by bootload on Sunday November 22, 2009 @02:18AM (#955513)

"... Mapmakers will often use “copyright traps,” bits of information in their maps that are purposefully wrong ..."

Very true. I once had to re-do a map for this exact reason though I'm not sure the "purposeful" fit was to get the major intersection on the page or to catch people out.

"... In Australia, the butchers have a secret language called “rechtub klat” ..."

keew txen tuo siht yrt ot gniog.

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Re:Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade by Oatmeat on Sunday November 22, 2009 @02:47AM (#955534)

From the article it appears that in "rechtub klat" the letters in a word are reversed, but the words have the same order in the sentence. So it would be:

  "gniog ot yrt siht tuo txen keew"

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Re:Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade by albemuth on Sunday November 22, 2009 @03:24PM (#956151)

He probably just did a str.reverse instead of str.split(' ').map {|w| w.reverse}.join ' '

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Re:Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade by bootload on Sunday November 22, 2009 @05:14PM (#956294)

"... He probably just did a str.reverse instead of str.split(' ').map {|w| w.reverse}.join ' ' ..."

Nothing so elaborate, just in my head.

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Re:Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade by lunchbox on Sunday November 22, 2009 @02:35AM (#955527)

I think you mean "gniog ot yrt siht tuo txen keew" :)

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Re:Professional Hacks: Tricks of the Trade by bootload on Sunday November 22, 2009 @05:16PM (#956298)

"... gniog ot yrt siht tuo txen keew ..."

Yes. I did this the first time but read the original as 'talk butcher' not 'butcher talk'.

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