Disemvoweling

In the fields of Internet discussion and forum moderation, disemvoweling (also spelled disemvowelling), which appears to model the word disemboweling, is the removal of vowels from text either as a method of self-censorship, or as a technique by forum moderators to censor unwanted posting, such as spam, internet trolling, rudeness or criticism. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks A forum moderator, often shortened to just mod, is a person granted special powers to enforce the rules of an Internet forum ( Message board) or Electronic In Phonetics, a vowel is a Sound in spoken Language, such as English ah! or oh!, pronounced with an open Vocal tract A forum moderator, often shortened to just mod, is a person granted special powers to enforce the rules of an Internet forum ( Message board) or Electronic Spam is the posting of advertisements abusive or unneeded messages on Internet forums It is generally posted by automated Spambots. An Internet troll, or simply troll in Internet slang, is someone who posts controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community such as an ^[1] The net effect of disemvoweling text is to render it illegible or legible only through significant cognitive effort, thus suppressing unwanted comments and discouraging such comments from being made in future. Cognitive Load is a term that refers to the load on Working memory during instruction

Regarding the use of disemvoweling to police internet blog comment sections, Xeni Jardin, co-editor of Boing Boing, says of the practice, "the dialogue stays, but the misanthrope looks ridiculous, and the emotional sting is neutralized. Xeni Jardin (ʃɛniː dʒɑːdæn (born August 5 1972) is a journalist and Boing Boing (originally bOING bOING) is a publishing entity first established as a Magazine, later becoming a group blog. "^[2] Also, Boing Boing producers claim that disemvoweling sends a clear message to internet forums as to what behavior is unacceptable. ^[3]

This original sentence:

In the fields of Internet discussion and forum moderation, disemvoweling (also spelled disemvowelling) is the removal of vowels from text.

would be disemvowelled to look like this:

n th flds f ntrnt dscssn nd frm mdrtn, Dsmvwlng (ls splld dsmvwllng) s th rmvl f vwls frm txt.

The technique has been facilitated by plug-in filters to automate the process. A filter is a computer program to process a Data stream. Some Operating systems such as Unix are rich with filter programs Because the letter y is sometimes a vowel and sometimes a consonant, there are a variety of ways to treat it. To remove it only where it is used as a vowel is not easily automated. Aside from an "all-or-nothing" approach, one option is remove a y only at the end of words, where it is virtually always a vowel. ^[4]

This treatment can be seen as reduction of the Latin alphabet to an abjad through the removal of vowels. An Abjad is a type of Writing system in which each symbol stands for a Consonant; the reader must supply the appropriate Vowel.

The word follows the standard patterns of English orthography; i. e. , it may be spelled either disemvoweling or disemvowelling, with the former generally preferred in U. S. English and the latter preferred in Commonwealth and Irish English.

Religious usage

A related usage, the spelling of "God" as "G-d", notable in traditional religious Jewish culture, is of different origins, and stems from a biblical injunction to not erase the name of God once written, but to treat it with reverence. In Judaism, the name of God is more than a distinguishing title Judaism (from the Greek Ioudaïsmos, derived from the Hebrew יהודה Yehudah, " Judah " in Hebrew יַהֲדוּת Yahedut

References

^ Used as a forum moderation method as early as November 21, 2002 by Teresa Nielsen Hayden on Making Light. Events 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family restores the Temple in Jerusalem. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. Teresa Nielsen Hayden (born March 21, 1956) is an American Science fiction editor fanzine writer Essayist, and Teacher This was termed "disemvoweling" by Arthur D. Hlavaty in that thread, later the same day.
^ Xeni Jardin. Online Communities Rot Without Daily Tending By Human Hands. The Edge Annual Question 2008. Edge.
^ Cory Doctorow (14 May 2007). Cory Doctorow (born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian Blogger Journalist and Science fiction author who serves as co-editor Events 1264 - Battle of Lewes: Henry III of England is captured in France making Simon de Montfort the Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. How To Keep Hostile Jerks From Taking Over Your Online Community. Information Week. TechWeb Business Technology Network. Retrieved on 2007-05-15. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the
^ Scholastic Teaching Resources, Scholastic, Accessed August 09, 2006

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-verb

Present participle of disemvowel.

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disemvoweling

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