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"actmally rdrtable execmtable" that's more or less how it reads to someone who knows the Greek alphabet :-D

(I might be partially wrong because I've studied Greek many years ago and my memory is not good)

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It's somehow worse than "toys ya us".

Or Nee (Nine Inch Nails: NIИ)

Whoa... that means Trent Reznor is a Knight who says Nee!

Or Stack Overflow's "We are less than three people who code."

This comment is the top Google result for "stack overflow we are less than three people who code". It's not clear to me what you mean.

I think it refers to this[1] page with the header "We <3 people who code" where <3 is supposed to be a heart.

(Probably people from the "post-emoji generation" can't recognise <3 as well as us old people ahah)

[1] https://pics.onsizzle.com/stack-overflow-where-dev-x-https-s...

No that's a reversed-R which happens to look identical like a Cyrillic letter. I don't think that's a problem any more than getting confused and trying to pronounce a circle in a logo as an "o". In contrast, the text here is trying to look Greek but doing it poorly.

That Cyrillic letter happens to be pronounced "ya".

another offence is using sigma (∑) as a stylized "E" or uppercase lambda (Λ) as "A" (see NASA logo).

Really confusing that they use mu when upsilon is available...

Not really confusing when you assume the intention is to look clever - the more different the letterform you find while it still being recognisable as the one you are replacing, the more exaggerated your effect is without further reducing readability.

(Yes, I know this isn't "just to try look clever", ala 1337-speak, and is trying to make a relevant reference to the cross audience understanding the is relevant to a cross platform executable, but the point still stands about choosing less similar but still similar enough glyphs)

Γορ μεμορι ις στιλλ γκουτ

LOL some high-end Anglo-Greek right there :-D thanks

Shouldn’t it be ‘γκουvт’?

That's an English p, not a Greek ρ.

you are right, I assumed it was a rho but on closer inspection it's a lowercase p

actmally r-thee-ta-blae execm-ta-blae

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