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What is the other word for text "overlapping"?

Asked by lessonenglish (278points) September 19th, 2011

What is the proper word for text overlapping.?

I want to know the word for while looking the text or images overlapping with each other? and because of that user can’t read the whole sentences.

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thorninmud's avatar

I would say that one line of text is superimposed on the other.

JLeslie's avatar

I agree superimposed. You probably could use misaligned also.

CWOTUS's avatar

“Mooshed” is a more colloquial term.

JLeslie's avatar

Mooshed is not for formal communication in business, just to make it clear for @lessonenglish. I do use the word a lot casually though.

lessonenglish's avatar

Can either of glitchy or wonky work?

thorninmud's avatar

Those are broader terms for things gone wrong. They don’t describe the actual problem.

JLeslie's avatar

Wonky will not work in America, we don’t use the word. Glitchy is not necessarily correct. If you say the words overlapped because of a glitch in the programming that would make sense.

digitalimpression's avatar

Tangled, Layered, Garbled, Scrunched?

9doomedtodie's avatar

Yes. Gllitchy means bug or flaw, but Wonky means misalignment

9doomedtodie's avatar

I think superimposed would be better to use.

JLeslie's avatar

Who is your audience, client? All English speakers? Americans? Brits? Superimposed and misaligned I think are the best if you are talking to all English speakers.

lessonenglish's avatar

Client who’s from U.S.

JLeslie's avatar

Ok, that is very important. Do not use wonky or glitchy.

lessonenglish's avatar

Yes. Thanks!! :)

Jeruba's avatar

Are you filing a bug report, @lessonenglish?

blueiiznh's avatar

Your example shows poor web coding or bad page rendering..

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lessonenglish's avatar

@Jeruba : Yes. I was filing a bug report.
@blueiiznh : Poor web coding this would generally be used in development.

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