My definition: “a misspelling so strange that it must be traveling backward in time to give us a foretaste of our language’s evolution.” Think of it as tomorrow’s spelling today.
You out there: have you seen off for of?
Other spellings of the future
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I haven't gotten to "off" just yet because I'm still trying to pronounce the double trema (bitrema? tremata"?).
:)
I was afraid to even mention that. But now I wish I’d looked more closely to see what those marks were. I don’t think they’re handwritten.
A really, really long "u".
"order" almost looks like "oγdeγ" (if that doesn't show, gamma instead of 'r').
Oh, wait -- it all makes sense now, it's just missing a couple of commas. If we accept "oγdeγ" but use the more common "g", we get "og deg". A quick search online says this is Norwegian for "and you". So, it should read: "Out, off, and you."
So it's either poor spelling, or you've clearly stumbled upon the work of an as-of-yet-unknown Greek-born Norwegian existentialist poet. :)
(Occam be damned, I'm going with the second explanation).
I knew I was missing the obvious here. :)
On a serious note though, awkward characters and haphazard capitalization are things I often saw as a literacy tutor. Sometimes people know only one form of a letter. The r, the capital T, and the self-conscious u make me think that whoever wrote this message isn’t really at home in written language.
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