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What (who) is etaoin shrdlu - definition
NONSENSE PHRASE THAT CONTAINS THE 12 MOST COMMONLY USED LETTERS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN ORDER
Etaoin Shrdlu; Etaoin; ETAOIN; ETAOINSHRDLU; ETOIN SHRDLU; ETAION SHRDLU; Etaoinshrdlu; ETAOINS; CMFWYP; VBGKQJ; ETAOIN SHRDLU; Gobfrey Shrdlu
![Close-up of keyboard, showing "etaoin / shrdlu" pattern](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Linotype keyboard, showing "etaoin shrdlu" key pattern.jpg?width=200 "Close-up of keyboard, showing \"etaoin / shrdlu\" pattern")
![A [[Linotype machine]] keyboard. It has the following alphabet arrangement twice, once for lower case (the black keys) and once for upper case (the white keys), with the keys in the middle for numbers and symbols: '''etaoin / shrdlu / cmfwyp / vbgkqj / xz'''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Linotype keyboard with Star Quadder attachment.jpg?width=200 "A [[Linotype machine]] keyboard. It has the following alphabet arrangement twice, once for lower case (the black keys) and once for upper case (the white keys), with the keys in the middle for numbers and symbols: '''etaoin / shrdlu / cmfwyp / vbgkqj / xz'''")
etaoin shrdlu
...something that is nonsense or absurd.... An error. The order of letters on the old Linotype machines, from most frequently used to least frequently used in speech and writing, not in words. etaoin shrdlu cmfgyp wbvkxj qz.
Some of the SMS text makes about as much sense to me as etaoin shrdlu. (Short Messaging Service translation: som of d SMS txt mAkz bout az much sense 2 me az etaoin shrdlu.)
Some of the SMS text makes about as much sense to me as etaoin shrdlu. (Short Messaging Service translation: som of d SMS txt mAkz bout az much sense 2 me az etaoin shrdlu.)
Etaoin shrdlu
Etaoin shrdlu (, ) is a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print accidentally in the days of "hot type" publishing because of a custom of type-casting machine operators to fill out and discard lines of type when an error was made. It appeared often enough to become part of newspaper lore – a documentary about the last issue of The New York Times composed using hot metal (July 2, 1978) was titled Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu – and "etaoin shrdlu" is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary and in the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
SHRDLU
COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UNDERSTANDING NATURAL LANGUAGE
Shrdlu
SHRDLU was an early natural-language understanding computer program, developed by Terry Winograd at MIT in 1968–1970. In the program, the user carries on a conversation with the computer, moving objects, naming collections and querying the state of a simplified "blocks world", essentially a virtual box filled with different blocks.
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Etaoin shrdlu
Etaoin shrdlu (, ) is a nonsense phrase that sometimes appeared in print accidentally in the days of "hot type" publishing because of a custom of type-casting machine operators to fill out and discard lines of type when an error was made. It appeared often enough to become part of newspaper lore – a documentary about the last issue of The New York Times composed using hot metal (July 2, 1978) was titled Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu – and "etaoin shrdlu" is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary and in the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
It is the approximate order of frequency of the 12 most commonly used letters in the English language.
