Saturday 21 March 2009

78 Control/Censorship/Word Filters

In these days of technological advances one of the most annoying things is censorship. Particularly word filters. People now have to deliberately misspell words in order to get a feeling across. This has inadvertently thrown up some excellent words. Cvnt for example gives the original word an air of antiquity sort of a Roman feel, old vagina, and an altogether more potent insult. B0ll0x has added concupiscence, the word actually looks like a big pair of testes hanging between an erect penis. Tw4t has added gravitas, the extra 4 acts like a suggestion. The expression ‘W4nker, Ar5e, 6astard’ has a scaling quality that implies increasing annoyance. \!/ actually looks like what it is meant to imply. And people have become more creative in the use of euphemisms and conjured such delights as ‘ What a chutney ferret’, ‘She had a face like a decorators wireless’ and ‘I crashed my yoghurt cart into her spam purse’ in order to scale that firewall.
It is good to see that human creativity has once again thwarted the attempts of mind control and produced an exquisite subverted language that has more depth, texture and expression.

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