Title Misreading Confusion
Commenters share experiences of initially misreading the Hacker News title or post phrasing, leading to humorous confusion or shock before parsing the correct meaning.
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lmao this is how I initially read it. I was rather confused for a second.
I misread 'to the' as just 'the' and was very intrigued.
Well I read that wrong at first glance.
I got very confused too. After reading a few times I interpreted it as a typo.
Oh I see. Yeah, I read that weirdly
haha, I was confused for a minute reading this post thinking the same thing.
That was my initial reading too, hence the confusion.
Am I the only one who misread the name on first glance?
I read it as "goofed" at first.
I admit, I misinterpreted the sentence in the first read and was pretty shocked.