deliberate mistakes

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:51 AM -0700 6/8/07, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>what the Jargon File says:
>
>cow orker: n.
>[Usenet] n. fortuitous typo for co-worker, widely used in Usenet,
>with perhaps a hint that orking cows is illegal. This term was
>popularized by Scott Adams (the creator of Dilbert) but already
>appears in the January 1996 version of the scary devil monastery FAQ,
>and has been traced back to a 1989 sig block. Compare hing, grilf,
>filk, newsfroup.

and, as we discussed during the WOTY vote at the Anaheim ADS meeting,
"pwn" < "own"

LH

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