#etaoin shrdlu

[aylinhadtimeforthis]

the poets the typa mfs to have written eulogies for Etaoin Shrdlu in the 70s

if u don't know who this man is I beg of you please search him up u will not be disappointed

[ghstmsk]

bunch of misc mouse doodles some months since i stopped posting on here

[forgottenbones]

Why does this nonsense phrase appear in so many old newspapers?

[fabricdragondesigns]

Why does this nonsense phrase appear in so many old newspapers?

[sarahshotts]

Etaoin shrdlu was used as a “red flag by typesetters to show an error in text, but sometimes it was overlooked and made it into print.” It is the approximate order of frequency of the 12 most commonly used letters in the English language.”

via The Dusty Wheel 20th Anniversary Livestream

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[thenightstroll]

[dailydoseofoldshit]

Sourced from the 20 July 1918 issue of The Diamond Drill; page 6 - accessed via Chronicling America.

[sugoiney-weaver]

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I feel like my next dnd character has to be named Etaoin Shrdlu

[thingsiwishihadknownsooner]

"Why does this nonsense phrase appear in so many old newspapers?"

[bacony-cakes]

automatically i am a huge fan of boopy.

[hellsite-proteins]

ok so in order to get more reliable proteins I did some googling regarding amino acid frequency and letter frequency in languages using Latin scripts. What I think we need is a language that has roughly even distribution of letter frequency across the FASTA amino acid codes. I don’t know which languages, if any, actually fit that description: Czech seems to come closest, with the most common letter at 8% vs 12% for English, but it also has a lot of unusable letters. We may need to ask linguistics blogs for help. anyway to make the protein longer here’s a list of the most common letters in a bunch of languages from Wikipedia, Google translated into Czech:

Na základě těchto tabulek je ekvivalent „etaoin shrdlu“ pro každý jazyk následující:

Based on these tables, the equivalent of "etaoin throat" for each language is as follows:

Na základě těchto tabulek je ekvivalent 'etaoin shrdlu' pro každý jazyk následující:

Based on these tables, the equivalent of 'etaoin throat' for each language is as follows:

francouzsky: 'esaitn ruoldc'; (Indoevropský: kurzíva; tradičně se používá „esartinulop“, částečně pro snadnou výslovnost[34])

španělsky: 'eaosrn idltcm'; (indoevropsky: kurzíva)

portugalština: 'aeosri dmntcu' (indoevropsky: kurzíva)

italsky: 'eaionl rtscdu'; (indoevropsky: kurzíva)

německy: 'ensria tdhulg'; (indoevropský: germánský)

švédsky: 'eanrts ildomk'; (indoevropský: germánský)

turečtina: 'aeinrl ıdkmyt'; (turečtina)

nizozemsky: 'enatir odslgv'; (indoevropský: germánský)[29]

polsky: 'aioezn rwstcy'; (indoevropský: baltoslovanský)

dánština: 'erntai dslogk'; (indoevropský: germánský)

islandský: 'arnies tulðgm'; (indoevropský: germánský)

finština: 'aintes loukäm'; (Uralština: Finština)

česky: 'aeonit vsrldk'; (indoevropský: baltoslovanský)

maďarsky: 'eatlsn kizroá'; (Uralština: ugrofinská)

i'm really interested to see how this turns out! i do remove all letters that don't code for proteinogenic amino acids, but for letters with accents that otherwise match i just remove the accent. (eg. č becomes c). i don't know if the accented letters are considered different letters though, so i'm not sure how that affects frequency calculations. i did worry that if they are entirely different letters it may come off as disrespectful to change them rather than remove them entirely, so if any of y'all have an opinion either way please let me know so i can apply it to future posts!

letter sequence in this ask matching protein-coding amino acids:

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protein guy analysis:

its interesting that some parts of this look much nicer than others. we have some great helices generally all in one area, and while they may be a bit far apart, they are still on the better side for a structure on this blog specifically, especially for one that is on the larger side. even the loops vary, with some being nice and squiggly while others are a lot smoother and straighter. however, the confidence is similarly low throughout. the better looking parts do generally seem to line up with the non-english portions, so this may be my fault for including the entire text instead of just parts of it. either way though, this is a really neat thing to see and i'm excited to look at the other asks i've gotten trying out different languages!

predicted protein structure:

[leletha-jann]

GODDAMMIT FOGLIOS, or I See What You Did There...

The twelve most common letters in the English language are

ETAOIN SHRDLU

...otherwise known to Girl Genius readers as

EOTAIN and SHURDLU

These two:

The original Geisterdamen (we know, because they recognize Agatha later in Sturmhalten, and they're still mad about it in Paris):

These guys:

The characters who speak an untranslated language are named after a cryptography reference.

...

...

...that's funny.

Kudos, Professors, you're very clever.

Goddammit.

[doppleganger-rental]

Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu (1978)

The last day of hot metal typesetting at the New York Times.

Well worth a watch. The Linotype machine was a genuine, mechanical wonder.

[yeoldenews]

I found something fascinating and I was wondering if you'd come across any of these: https://youtu.be/vlurcp_qiSg?si=dDyD0jQ6C2X5DXFh

(The link goes to a YouTube video by Dime Store Adventures about the story behind the linotype keysmash "etaoin shrdlu" that often appears as a typo in old newspapers.)

I have definitely seen these around from time to time, but didn't know the phrase had such a cult following in newspaper printing lore.

That was very interesting! Thanks for the link.

[brucewaynehater101]

Special Death (Elvis) is the death of too many cheeseburgers and not enough poo chute. Fun fact: You can wash squirrels with the tiits of a seagull. Thank you for not voring in corrugation! If painis is sure to result in victory, then you must deploy a sentry point on your arse with cupcakes. (Time for a competition in sexnificence!) My arms are too long.

Introducing…The Skronk Machine! For improved and easier skronking! (person being skronked screams in agony)

I'll buy you a delicatessen! In stainless steel! B. Smith would be a passenger on the westbound train, and the crowd that greeted him when the train pulled in etaoin shrdlu. Cardamom yellow paint is tasty for the soup of God with the super painis of mega yeet.

In conclusion, Kryptonite tastes like green apple Ring Pops and Lazarus Water tastes like blue cotton candy :)

This makes me question my reading comprehension skills, but in a good way? I'm hella confused, but kind of vibing with it.

Special Death (Elvis)... does it actually have anything to do with Elvis? By not enough poo chute, do you mean they ate too much with shitting???

I didn't know seagulls had tits. I don't want to look up "do seagulls have tits" because Google will then start showing weirdly specific ads I want nothing to do with. I thought birds, if they produced milk, did it from their throat. This is probably why I got a C in my ecology classes.

Fuck. I looked up "voring." Godsdamnit. Anyways, voring in corrugation... consuming a loved one while simultaneously being folded up into tiny ridges? It would be harder to do that than to not do that... so you're welcome?

I give up. I looked up painis, and Urban Dictionary told me that means penis (also, autocorrect tried to turn penis into punishment. I have no clue how to feel about that). So.... if penis = victory, then I must build a tower on my ass with cupcakes? Okay.

[I feel like I'm taking notes for a class that's 3 levels ahead]

As far as sexnificence, I tried to do etemology... The end is apparently "to make, to do, or doing." So time to compete in the doing of sex? I'm good, but I do have questions on how that relates to your arms being too long?

For scronking, I am glad that it seems to be a demonstration (i.e. the person screaming while being scronked). Thanks for showing what it does even if I still have no clue what it does ^^

As far as the stainless steel delicatessen, I appreciate you buying me one (as long as it's something chill). I don't know where I'm going to put it (since I also don't know how big it is), but I'll find a place for it.

I don't know a B. Smith nor his destination, but I wish him safe travels (unless he's a prick).

How often do you eat paint to know which colors have better flavor down to their exact category (instead of just yellow, blue, green)? Also, why is God eating paint soup? Is mega yeet a person or title? Why is their painis super and being added to the paint soup???

Overall, I am glad you confirmed what the Lazarus Water and Kryptonite tastes like. I've never wondered what Kryptonite tastes like (which I now realize is a mistake. I should have been wondering this entire time). Lazarus Pits, though, I thought tasted like sweet sweaty death and Bug Juice drink. Blue cotton candy is much tastier.

[zorubark-art-account]

Phoenix Quill's Inktober: Day 3, the Dragon Witch

She's a red dragon, and they don't tend to study witchery, wizardry and such, so she's an odd one out amongst red dragons. She's known as THE dragon witch because of that, even though there are technically more dragon witches of other species.

She didn't have a teacher and got by learning magic by deciphering books and experimenting, because of that her magic is kinda "off-brand", you see, she couldn't read the books that well so she kinda guessed what they said, with lots of trial and error, she felt like she learned the books but she actually made it totally different. She started to write her own magic book with how she makes her spells and her instructions are things like "[...]think about something you hate and hold your wand tight[...]", "[...]you need to break open a clam and eat it, but only if it's red[...]", "[...]rub your wand for it to work", "drink swamp water", "it necessitates you taking 7 cockatrices' organs, all of them for no chance of failure", "and stab them with your wand, clean the blood later or use it for spells" and such. She has such a way with words.

She also holds her wand with a fist, which is deemed incorrect by the Benona Witch Comittee, here are some words from their members about her:

"Dragon witch? How does a dragon become a witch? Do they even have interest in that? She must be a special girl, I guess. Maybe she'll introduce magic to other dragons?" -Clotilde, the Violin Witch

"Her magic is very unpractical, of course she learned form misinterpreting books, and she doesn't want to learn from us either, so why would we accept her? We made rules on the most practical ways of each spell and she can do spells badly if she wants but I won't pretend she's a great witch!" -Alberta, Cane Witch

"Why does she do spells if she can breath fire? Does she combine them? I hope she does, because it would be a waste. We spend a lifetime learning how to make a fireball from thin air and she's gonna spend her time learning how to make a simple beam? How does she handle that humiliation... Imagine a simple beam being complicated for you, poor girl." -Berta, untitled

"I once read her book and it's incomprehensible from my perspective. What the hell does "add pepper to your tongue to make it easier" mean? What kind of stuff has she cooked, half her book is detailing ways to do gruesome things that bring you discomfort to do spells, it doesn't have to be that way, I, for one, never do this because I can gain my stress source from the outside world without any need of pepper or cockatrice bites!"

"She's so cute, she once used a spell to breath fire that makes a heart shape, then a star shape, she's also great at hunting, she once stroke down a flying pegasus on her own with the thin beam, it was impressive. But she also told me that I should hold my wand with my fist, which was weird, she never gave me advice before or after"

"Guys I fucking set my dress on fire witht he fucking simple beam, I thought it was simple this shit's ridiculous how is it so strong? My teacher said it was the weakest spell she knew how strong is she really? That's what I get for messing with condensed magic." -Elaine Martines, apprentice

Editor please get that last one out Etaoin shrdlu was here