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November 7, 2002

Take the nielsenhayden.com intelligence test! Yes, you can do it. Just examine the following e-mail addresses:
pnh@panix.com
tnh@panix.com
Now, which one do you suppose writes Electrolite? And which one do you suppose writes Making Light?

Hint: try looking at the top of each of those web pages.

Why are so many people suddenly sending me email obviously meant for Teresa’s weblog? Poor reading skills? Cognitive impairment? Or just niacin deficiency? [04:38 PM]

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Hard-Hitting Moderator: Teresa Nielsen Hayden.

Comments on Take the nielsenhayden.com intelligence test!:

Teresa Nielsen Hayden ::: (view all by) ::: November 07, 2002, 05:03 PM:

Simple absentmindedness?

Please don't get scared off. The comments are the best part of my weblog.

Avram ::: (view all by) ::: November 08, 2002, 12:58 AM:

Do the mistakes all go one way? Does Teresa ever get mail for Electrolite?

Maybe exposure to words like pterosaur has convinced large numbers of people that the letters p and t are interchangeable.

Christopher Hatton ::: (view all by) ::: November 08, 2002, 07:09 AM:

Rats, Avram, you beat me to it. I assumed the P stood for Pteresa, which is of course Anglicized from Pterese, meaning 'wingful' or 'the language of wings'.

Christopher Hatton ::: (view all by) ::: November 08, 2002, 02:40 PM:

Oops, I goofed. 'Pterese' can't mean 'wingful'; that would be 'pterose'. Which also sounds like a sugar found in wings (presumably barbecued or with duck sauce).

OK, , at least for the mo.