Monday, February 06, 2006
Disemvoweling
My friend Will has introduced me to a fabulous new word, "disemvoweling." As this Wikipedia entry explains, it is a process used to discourage troll postings on forums and in comments.
My friend Will has introduced me to a fabulous new word, "disemvoweling." As this Wikipedia entry explains, it is a process used to discourage troll postings on forums and in comments.
Disemvoweling (also spelled disemvowelling) is a technique used by forum moderators to suppress trolling, vandalism, and other rude behavior in online discourse by removing all the vowels from the offending material. The disemvoweled text can still be read, or rather puzzled out, but it is clearly marked as deprecated and is no longer susceptible to being automatically read by every passer-by who happens to glance at it.Personally, I haven't many opportunities to use this word, but it makes me happy knowing it's out there, so I must spread it further, in the hopes that it will be used by those who can.
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It's a wonderful word, appealing to me both as an English teacher and someone with lots of unresolved anger. I shall contrive a situation to use it [the word and the concept], no matter what contortions I have to go through. Let the disemvowelling begin. Bwa ha ha.
(Can you do it off-blog?)
(Can you do it off-blog?)
I totally think you should get your students to submit their papers electronically so you can disemvowel the mistakes, so they have to write them over again. Just think of all the things you could do to off-topic sentences and unclear theses!
I am so tempted to post a vituperative, small-minded, trollish comment here, just to give you the pleasure of disemvoweling it.
# posted by 
: 2:01 PM
: 2:01 PM
Wh dd y dsmvwll this cmmnt?
Well, f crse y ddn't -- I ws jst bng sll nd pstd pr-dsmvwlld cmmnt f m wn.
Well, f crse y ddn't -- I ws jst bng sll nd pstd pr-dsmvwlld cmmnt f m wn.
Neil comma that looks nearly as fun as when an earlier entry a few years ago inspired me and some others to try typing out all punctuation marks instead of simply using them period I do see that you have elected to include y as a vowel comma though period
I spent a soul-sucking morning today teaching a grammar chapter called "Connecting Ideas" and speaking just like that. I have a sub on Wednesday semi-colon I hope she finishes the chapter for me.
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