Word spacing and its importance.

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One of the Facebook walls I often read posted something I thought people here might find interesting. If it has been mentioned before, I am sorry. It was about the logo off a company call Kids Exchange. It reads 'kidsexchange'. If you put it in your favourite search tool you will see for yourself. Just goes to show how important the spacing of words can be.

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Indeed.

Extravagance's picture

Therapist, or The rapist?

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And then there's the one about...

I remember a scene from an old tv show where a man hands someone his business card. After a glance at the card, the person looks up questioningly and says,

"Psycho, the rapist?"

That line has stuck with me and made me smile for 25 years.

sex change always a problem -- not

Some years ago when I was an admin of a group of internal websites for a telecom company , I kept running into addresses in the logs with 'sexchange' in them. In the end it was all stuff referring to something like 'ms exchange mail'. The scripts I wrote were truncating some information when it saved log files and that created the suspicious set of log entries.

Truncing...

Can be such a fun thing!

Abigail Drew.

Re: Word spacing and its importance.

The most famous example of this, at least in the IT sector, is the Experts Exchange website. It was originally accessible as expertsexchange.com but has subsequently dropped that domain name in favour of experts-exchange.com due the ambiguous nature of the URL.

You also have the controversial twitter tag that was used to promote Susan Boyle's latest album recently, "susanalbumparty", which can also be interpreted as a homosexual orgy if you insert three spaces instead of the intended two.

Oops!

laika's picture

"A stonemason has been fired from his job at the insistence of the regents of Tulane University. He had carved this epigraph in marble above the entrance of the new library: THE PEN IS MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD. The Regents maintain that the stonemason deliberately reduced the space between the second and third words..."

~from CAMP CONCENTRATION by Thomas M. Disch