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vonklaus
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Me too. Is this a sort of allusion to something?
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lambda
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It's supposed to read as a portmanteau of "ASCII" and "cinema", but yeah, I can see the misreading.
vonklaus
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Oh that makes sense, as it is quite close in spelling. I have been reading as (As-Key-Nema).
sickill
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You were reading it right :) I guess I should add spelling info to the site ;)
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