It's 11:30, I'm sat here being a bi of a geek watching Azumi, with an open copy of Games Workshop's latest Codex: Space Marines, whilst commenting on a friends blog and something caught my eye.
I was asked to provide word verification to be allowed to post the comment, and that in itself is not what caught my eye as I think it is incredibly important in the ongoing 'War on Spam' as I now like to dub it, but rather the word I was asked to give as verification, fvupii. Now my wondering is how one would go about pronouncing typed word. Phonetically I imagine it would be something like 'fuh-voo-pee-eye',as any good Latin student would go about pronouncing it, or even 'fwoop-yee', which is just the bit more fanciful. It is a predicament.
Now the next question that just begs to be asked is; what could the dictionary definition of fvupii possibly be? Following the line of portmanteaus, but in relation to the first pronunciation I suggested, it could be this; for when a Vulcan gets a pea stuck in their eye (F'vu-pea-eye) geddit? Any suggestions from anyone else?
Well, I've ran out of typing steam so I'll just leave this as it is.
God bless.
Saturday, 18 October 2008
It's a good thing we're not Vulcans.
Labels:
musing,
pea,
portmanteau,
thought,
verification,
vulcan,
words
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