{"id":16253,"date":"2009-10-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/10\/27\/freudian-typo-the-accidental-emoticon\/"},"modified":"2009-10-27T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T07:00:00","slug":"freudian-typo-the-accidental-emoticon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20091027-00\/?p=16253","title":{"rendered":"Freudian typo: The accidental emoticon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Some time ago, I ran across the following Freudian typo in a mail thread discussing plans for the project after Milestone&nbsp;3, commonly abbreviated M3. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"m\"><p> I&#8217;d like to talk with you about your plans for this area after &lt;3. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> On the US-English keyboard layout, the M and comma keys are adjacent, and a shifted comma is a less-than sign. A simple off-by-one-key typo resulted in M3 turning into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/11\/21\/evolution-of-the-hea.html\"> an emoticon<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time ago, I ran across the following Freudian typo in a mail thread discussing plans for the project after Milestone&nbsp;3, commonly abbreviated M3. I&#8217;d like to talk with you about your plans for this area after &lt;3. On the US-English keyboard layout, the M and comma keys are adjacent, and a shifted comma is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-16253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Some time ago, I ran across the following Freudian typo in a mail thread discussing plans for the project after Milestone&nbsp;3, commonly abbreviated M3. I&#8217;d like to talk with you about your plans for this area after &lt;3. On the US-English keyboard layout, the M and comma keys are adjacent, and a shifted comma is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}