https://xkcd.com/2896

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Also, we would really appreciate it if you could prominently refer to it as an ‘eHit’.

  • Deebster@programming.devOP
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    9 months ago

    These are all short words full of the most common letters, so will make designing crosswords easier because they’ll be useful “crossers”.

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        9 months ago

        These specific musicians are referenced a lot by crosswords. NYT loves them, at least. Very “hip and with it”.

        It’s kinda an inside joke, but that’s XKCD for ya.

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        9 months ago

        I assume it’s just an example of how to create new topical words since it’s a lot easier to name an album than to get a word well-known enough to be eligible for the dictionary.

        The artists all seem to be big names so I assume it’s their popularity rather than any history of quirky album names that’s decided the list.

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        9 months ago

        I assumed it was because those musicians are popular enough that even if they released songs/albums with the title scheme akin to svnahshfhfbduj people would still buy them and know about them.

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        9 months ago

        Oh the crossword cross-er. Thought it was a cool new “puzzle head” term I hadn’t heard. Misread. I’m dumb at crosswords too.