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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 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.
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." Also, Boing Boing producers claim that disemvoweling sends a clear message to internet forums as to what behavior is unacceptable.
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. 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's used as a vowel isn't easily automated. Aside from an "all-or-nothing" approach, one option is remove a
y only at the end of words, where it's virtually always a vowel.
This treatment can be seen as reduction of the
Latin alphabet to an
abjad through the removal of vowels.
The word follows the standard patterns of English orthography; for example, 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.
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