shrdlun.
/ˈʃəːdluː/ A sequence of letters appearing on the keyboard of a type-setting machine, used as an example of an absurd or unintelligible utterance. Cf. QWERTY adj. and n.
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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > set of keys > series
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [noun] > error in written mode > wrongly printed sequence
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1943 D. Powell Time to be Born (new ed.) xii. 290 She read..the words... For all the sense they made to Vicky they might have been a trail of ‘shrdlu etaoin's’.
1970 New Statesman 25 Dec. 863/2 Those witty literals, exotic printers' pies and secret messages in the shrdlu code.
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