#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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[bacony-cakes]

automatically i am a huge fan of boopy.

[thenightstroll]

[dailydoseofoldshit]

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

[sugoiney-weaver]

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

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?"

[foone]

Do you have any computer keyboards laid out like a linotype? I wanna bring back etoain shrdlu

I kinda made a joke one once

But really, the thing is, I don't want to make one. I'm a monotype girl. Besides the fact that they were so much safer than linotypes, look at the sexiness of this keyboard:

That's a keyboard that I want to make out with. I don't know how that'd even work, but I do. It's so beautiful.

Compare that with a linotype keyboard:

Does that fuck? Not even a little. Okay maybe a tiny bit: The way that you've got lowercase left-hand and uppercase right-hand is kinda cool.

But still, monotype machines never spilled molten lead in your lap, and could be easily modified to print in different fonts and have symbols added... that's why they hung on for so long, they were invaluable for non-english printing in english-majority areas, and mathematical printing. You can easily stick a ≤, ∞, or ∫ into your monotype, but doing that for a linotype? no way.

[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)

ture��tina: '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.

[magnetictapedatastorage]

source articles: software bloat, software rot, SHRDLU.