http://postimage.org/image/dexfjk7x7/
WTF?
What is a dedural anyway? Looks like a cross between deduce or deduction and natural.
Maybe it’s like an epidural. Or a Dead Sea type of thing in the Urals.
Every CAPTCHA is the worst CAPTCHA ever.
I agree. Most of the reCAPTCHAs I get are not real words. At least not English words. And half the time, it takes me multiple passes before I get it right. Man, do I hate those things. (And, yes, I know I can “refresh” it if I can’t read it, but sometimes, even when I’m sure I got the CAPTCHA right, I’m sometimes wrong.)
I hate when I refresh ten times or more and each new image is less legible than the previous. The image in the OP is actually not difficult to read at all, even if it isn’t an easily recognisable English word.
I’ve never seen one that was a portion of an image rather than a scan of a book. Maybe they have added in recognition of text in images as part of an image search. Or maybe it was a photo in a book that got its text grabbed along the way.
You’re missing the point. There are two words and you’re supposed to enter both of them.
The first word ‘dedural’ is easy enough.
The second word is some weird image, I cant even tell what it’s supposed to be. How the hell am I supposed to enter that?
I didn’t know that, either, but here’s literally the first two CAPTCHAs I got from the recaptcha website:
First reCAPTCHA.
First one has the weird image thing going on, the second one doesn’t. Both are stupid.
I’ve noticed these things getting worse and worse (meaning, harder to read) over the past year or so. It’s infuriating, especially because a few poorly-coded websites wipe out everything on the form you’ve filled out if you botch the captcha.
“11”. It’s a house number.
It’s an eleven. I don’t understand how you failed to comprehend that, but that’s why you’re allowed to select another.
And for the record, you don’t have to get precisely mirror the text given. Most captchas are +/- seventy percent. So if you get an algebraic equation, enter the 11 instead of x+(4/3)*2. Or enter the longer part. It doesn’t matter. In this case dedunal or dedunai would likely have passed as easily as dedural.
Whatever you do, DON’T listen to it. I tried that once and the recording was like falling through a black hole.
Into hell.
Seriously, stuff of nightmares.
I missed the point because I read it as 11 straight away. I’ve seen other house number CAPTCHAs recently so I understood what I was looking at.
Then I wonder what in the hell I’m doing to get it wrong so often.
Are you sure you’re actually human? Ever had the Turing Test taken? 
That’s brilliant. Use images of street numbers–that the Google algorithm has already determined are street numbers and what they are. No algorithm will ever be able to figure that out…
Because why in the world would you think something as simple as a two digit number would be hard for a computer to read? My mind sure didn’t see the 11 until a few seconds later, and even then I only would have posted 11 because I wouldn’t know what else to try.
Anyone who has had to solve a CAPTCHA has taken a Turing test. It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
That acronym is worse than I ever imagined.