Why does a driver’s license plate number ask questions?
I’m struggling to find a word or a single word for “confusing” (see the struggle?) license plate numbers, such as:
B8B8BB8 (California plate)
Is there even a term for that?
How can someone help me while I am on vacation?
What are the most
ambiguous words in the MWD 1 a :doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness eyes of
an ambiguous color b :inexplicable 2 : capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways an ambiguous smile an ambiguous
term a deliberately ambiguous reply
The standard California passenger car (not truck) plate is a number, three letters, and three numbers. It is emblazoned in a black and white color on color.
Other plates are “personalized” plates that may send a message or name the car. Where do we stand on most obscure stuff? If the plate in question was “bate bate be bate”, what could be the code for that plate? A FORAIR could be a plate on an electric car, e.g. a t-bar. In the mid 1980s we saw the Tesla Motors.
It’s not obscurity, it’s having fun or showing off. How would everyone know if the correct question was asked? Sometimes they are far more memorable than the standard plates and they require an extra fee (every year) in london. However some of them were removed from production and now are available to the public (except for one -time cost) in the US. I remember hearing a Jaguar car had a plate like this on it.
Some friends working on the FreeBsd operating system wanted to get the plate freeBSD. I’m new, am new too. This was denied by the state of California because it was considered suggestive of illegal drugs, since it could be read as “free-based.” ”
My only regret for expressing myself is that I don’t often have to mention anything. I must go home “
I would use the word confusable (which is both an adjective and a noun) because this is what Unicode calls characters like these.
# Confusables
# This is a draft list of visually confusable characters
The page does list zero and O (good luck finding them in the list though):
0 ; o ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Another good noun is homoglyph :
In orthography and typography, a homoglyph is a symbol representing two or more graphemes or characters, or glyphs with shapes that appear identical or very similar.
Wikipedia
(I would also also call the license plate by the location an “XKCD license plate”, but you have to be familiar with the comic
to get the joke.)
What does it mean if you say a book is “obfuscated”, which means “makes confusing, difficult to understand and get over”.
https://www.merriamwebster.com What
does it mean here, in particular because people might not have been randomly allocated these number plates – they have gone out of their way to choose hard-to-read numberplates, presumably because they take some sort of exception to the idea of being identifiable via their license plates, and therefore have chosen plates which are hard to remember, or easy to make mistakes during read.
Inscrutable
2. When is the truth confirmed? Can there be mysteries we
don’t know? *The
driver at the office told us my vanity license plate was from a van. She called that inscrutable (well, more than only this fake registration sticker and the next ad in the website)! What
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Are license plates indecipherable?
Dictionary:
indecipherable
– adjective
not able to be read or understood.
With synonyms, illegible, unreadable, hard-to-read, unintelligible, unclear
What does it mean if you say a book is “obfuscated”, which means “makes confusing, difficult to understand and get over”.
https://www.merriamwebster.com What
does it mean here, in particular because people might not have been randomly allocated these number plates – they have gone out of their way to choose hard-to-read numberplates, presumably because they take some sort of exception to the idea of being identifiable via their license plates, and therefore have chosen plates which are hard to remember, or easy to make mistakes during read.
What does it mean if you say a book is “obfuscated”, which means “makes confusing, difficult to understand and get over”.
https://www.merriamwebster.com What
does it mean here, in particular because people might not have been randomly allocated these number plates – they have gone out of their way to choose hard-to-read numberplates, presumably because they take some sort of exception to the idea of being identifiable via their license plates, and therefore have chosen plates which are hard to remember, or easy to make mistakes during read.
Are license plates indecipherable?
Dictionary:
indecipherable
– adjective
not able to be read or understood.
With synonyms, illegible, unreadable, hard-to-read, unintelligible, unclear
What are the most
ambiguous words in the MWD 1 a :doubtful or uncertain especially from obscurity or indistinctness eyes of
an ambiguous color b :inexplicable 2 : capable of being understood in two or more possible senses or ways an ambiguous smile an ambiguous
term a deliberately ambiguous reply