That girl was always falling again and again

[venta]

I've noticed, of late, that I've been getting worse at filling in captchas correctly. I think that they're getting worse, and harder to read - but possibly this is just the equivalent of declaring as you get older than all your friends have started mumbling.

This was today's particularly troublesome specimen:



Is it just me, or is the second word hard to read, and the last letter just a splodge?

Is captcha-reading software getting better, forcing captchas to become ever more illegible?

Or am I, in fact, slowly devolving into a spam bot?

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

Tell me, what did you recognise the second as?

Glorified?

As I said below, I thought (possibly completely wrongly) that I was explicitly looking for something which was not an actual word. If I'd been looking for something approximating a word, glorified would have been my guess.

(Buggered if I know what I'd have gone with for the first word, though, as AFAIK saltord isn't actually a real word.)

[uitlander]

Yeah, 'Glorified' was what my brain said, but you're right - the last letter is smudged.