Jure Cuhalev

04 Dec, 2009

Captcha is such an ugly word

Posted by: Jure Cuhalev In: Tech|usability

Hat tip to Wikia who gave it a few moments of thought and renamed captcha to blurry word. It still doesn’t tell you why it’s there, but now you can at least find it. Before that, it was just a nonsense term (for someone not in IT/web field).

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1 Response to "Captcha is such an ugly word"

1 | Swizec

December 7th, 2009 at 11:37 am

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“it was just a nonsense term”

That perfectly denotes everything about captcha’s and I’m a firm believer in the idea that words should phonetically and visually represent what they mean.

Sure blurry word works, but not as well :P