Oh, I see! Thanks!
Comment on xkcd #2896: Crossword Constructors
Deebster@programming.dev 8 months agoThese are all short words full of the most common letters, so will make designing crosswords easier because they’ll be useful “crossers”.
ZDL@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
moistclump@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are we called crossers?
moistclump@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh the crossword cross-er. Thought it was a cool new “puzzle head” term I hadn’t heard. Misread. I’m dumb at crosswords too.
stoly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But why references to musicians?
Soup@lemmy.world 8 months ago
These specific musicians are referenced a lot by crosswords. NYT loves them, at least. Very “hip and with it”.
It’s kinda an inside joke, but that’s XKCD for ya.
stoly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thanks, that’s what I needed
Deebster@programming.dev 8 months ago
I assume it’s just an example of how to create new topical words since it’s a lot easier to name an album than to get a word well-known enough to be eligible for the dictionary.
The artists all seem to be big names so I assume it’s their popularity rather than any history of quirky album names that’s decided the list.
shneancy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I assumed it was because those musicians are popular enough that even if they released songs/albums with the title scheme akin to svnahshfhfbduj people would still buy them and know about them.