Veri-Words

Help me out here all you techno-savvy-gen-XYZers. There must be a word for those word verification letters that you have to insert when you are commenting on the blog you are stalking/lurking.

I initially thought that it just can’t happen serendipitously and that Google somehow knows what you are commenting about, but that can’t be right because the verification letters pops up BEFORE you even comment.

Twice today I got creepily appropriate veri-words:

While posting a comment on a blog I just barely started stalking (see Brooke and Peggy’s link to the left) I thought that Brooke (another paralyzed person) really needs a dog to cuddle with in the morning like Tadaki does with me when JD is out of town. And the freaking veri-word was redidogs. Seriously? And it could be pronounced as Ready Dogs or Re-Did Dogs. Either way, how did Google know to give me that word?

Then as I posted a comment on one of Kirsten’s ReBf posts, the veri-word was hangst. What better word describes Kir’s emotion? Not just angst, but absolutely appropriate emotion-describing hangst.

Which leads me back to the original question. There must be a word for that word. Right?

Oh, wait, Wiki says it’s captcha: “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."

I beg to argue about that. The computer knew exactly the right veri-word to use. I’d call that more human than most of us that have trouble saying the right think when nothing else would do.