My friend Gilad asked me recently to think about a word that would mean what happens when you type words in the wrong language into your computer. We as Israelis who speak Hebrew but type Hebrew and English in our PC’s often miss type and need to delete and retype. Many times it’s the web address that comes as Gibrish.

For instance, i'll show you what this blog’s address- www.nivcalderon.com looks like in Hebrew : ”'ץמןהבשךגקרםמץבםצ .

www becomes ”' and .com becomes ץבםצ.

So, I thought of a word. First, I thought of words that link to the error:

word, language, miss, error, type, keyboard, user. I chose three words to combine them in one, more would make the word too long and less would be not intuitive enough, in my opinion. I chose "miss", "type" and "language", and merged them into one: "misstyplang"- which'll be pronounced "MISS-TYP-LANG". So, when you type in the wrong language you misstyplang, and you can misstyplang if you don't left Alt Shift in the right moment, and why not tell all those browser programmers to program the browsers they build to only get English in the address bar even if  it’s in the wrong language?! Firefox has an add-on for it, but why not have it built in already? and what about Explorer and the rest of them hi-tech browsers…

To be honnest, I don't know if it’s a good word. Anyway, only time will tell if people will find it and find it useful to themselves. I think an open debate about it would be good here.

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