词汇 | etaoin shrdlu |
词源 | etaoin shrdlu1931, journalism slang, the sequence of characters you get if you sweep your finger down the two left-hand columns of Linotype keys, which is what typesetters did when they bungled a line and had to start it over. It was a signal to cut out the sentence, but sometimes it slipped past harried compositors and ended up in print. updated on January 30, 2014 |
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