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Off topic story: In the early days of the internet I had a friend named Sal, who didn't understand what asl meant. He was very confused how people in chat rooms knew his name as soon as he got there, but weren't spelling it correctly.
Off topic story: In the early days of the internet I had a friend named Sal, who didn't understand what asl meant. He was very confused how people in chat rooms knew his name as soon as he got there, but weren't spelling it correctly.
After probing in a diplomatic way, it turned out that they interpreted "Howdy" as "How are you doing today?" which was fascinating to me, because it makes perfect sense. I never would've made the connection.
Edit: Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdy