Whomever named this was extremely cruel because those who have it can’t pronounce it.

  • Crozekiel
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    232 years ago

    I thought this was going to be about the programming language. :/ I blame XKCD

  • @Mudkipology
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    152 years ago

    Similar to kerning (the spacing between letters); fonts with bad kerning make the word look like keming.

  • Maharashtra
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    132 years ago

    The entire showerthought must be in the title

  • rockerface 🇺🇦
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    112 years ago

    So is rhotacism (inability to pronounce “R”). Funnily enough, it also has the “R” sound in Ukrainian (картавість - Cyrillic “р” corresponds to the rolling “R” sound) and Russian

  • @Tujio
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    92 years ago

    Same thing with the guy who named it ‘dyslexia.’

    • @TeckFire
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      42 years ago

      This word is actually not named maliciously at all. From Greek:

      “Dys,” meaning “bad,” or “abnormal,” like in Dysfunctional

      “Lexia” from “Lexis,” meaning “reading.” Think of “lexicon.”

      So now you have a perfectly normal word in Greek that came to the modern age and now is ironic because it’s not exactly native

  • @Jolan
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    32 years ago

    Named what??

  • @Tankaus
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    12 years ago

    Partials and dentures come to mind.