typosphere
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Matt Cidoni, 16, of East Brunswick, N.J., keeps a picture of his favorite machine, a Royal No. 10, on his iPod Touch so he can show it off to friends. Online, he is a proud member of the "typosphere," a global community of typewriter geeks. Like many of them, he enjoys "typecasting," or tapping out typewritten messages, which he scans and posts to his Web site, Adventures in Typewriterdom."
- "Having collected typewriters for more than 20 years, Polt decided to join the "typosphere" and start "typecasting". Simply put, he uses a typewriter to capture his thoughts, then scans the page and uploads it to his blog."
- "It is ironic, then, how social media has both supercharged and democratized the hobby, whose denizens have gone from a small handful of (predominantly older, white, male, American) collectors to a truly global "typosphere" of individuals of every race, religion, gender orientation, and political persuasion, whose uniting feature is an obsession with these antiquated writing machines."