{"id":191,"date":"2015-01-04T16:59:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/?p=191"},"modified":"2015-01-04T16:59:24","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:59:24","slug":"my-middle-name-is-qob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/2015\/01\/04\/my-middle-name-is-qob\/","title":{"rendered":"My Middle Name is “Qob”"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/g:plusone>

Do you ever see a sign or other text in passing very quickly and then your brain tries to fill in what it thought<\/em> it read, only to realize a moment later that there’s no way in hell that sign\/text said that?<\/p>\n

This happens to me all the time. I asked my G+ friends what this phenomenon is called<\/a> and nobody knew, so we made up our own terms. We’re the Internet. We totally get to do that.<\/p>\n

The consensus was that the formal or clinical term should be “misparsing”, since “malapropism”, “Mondegreen”, and “paronym” are all more about speaking or hearing versus visual input gone awry.<\/p>\n

Further, it was pointed out that if mistyping is colloquially known as a “typo” then misreading should be a “reado”, which I wanted to misread as “sharkreado” in keeping with the overall and inexplicable sharknado theme to this blog (which really ought to be a monkeynado theme but that brings up visions of the monkeyloo having a tornado in it which I’m fairly certain would use up our entire security deposit on the rental house so let’s never speak of monkeynadoes again<\/em>). Therefore the consensus was that “sharkreado” ought to be the colloquial version of “misparsing”.<\/p>\n

And further still – because if it’s possible to push things too far, this blog remains blissfully unaware of such limitations – I realized that part of my particular problem with misparsing is that my brain fills in the nerdiest possible interpretation regardless of what actual nerdery exists in the original sign\/text. Therefore the syndrome that causes misparsings\/sharkreadoes is FNAAH, which stands for Fucking Nerdy As All Hell<\/em>.<\/p>\n

All of this comes together thusly…if you happened to be on a bus going quickly down the street and out of the corner of your eye you saw this sign on a building:<\/p>\n

\"King<\/p>\n

And if you happened to have a critical case of ongoing FNAAH, you would misparse or sharkreado that sign as:<\/p>\n

\"Klingon<\/p>\n

Which the Bing Klingon Translator<\/a> (OMG an actual use for Bing!) assures me should be written as “tlhIngan DuSaQ Qob” or:<\/p>\n

\"Klingon<\/p>\n

And then thereafter whenever you were on a bus passing that building (which would be pretty often if you take busses into the central bus terminal of Cambridge), you would picture a bunch of fully-armoured Klingons in there learning how to pirouette with bat’leths, which would be not only fucking nerdy as all hell but also fucking awesome as all everything<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you ever see a sign or other text in passing very quickly and then your brain tries to fill in what it thought it read, only to realize a moment later that there’s no way in hell that sign\/text said that? This happens to me all the time. I asked my G+ friends what … [Read more…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,2,5,20,12,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","post","publish","author-kimberlychapman","post-191","format-standard","category-linguistic-mastery","category-monkey-loo","category-random-imaginary-acts-of-violence","category-random-nerdery","category-sharknado","category-star-trek-references"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kimberlychapman.com\/monkeyloo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}