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Disemvoweling, disemvowelling (see doubled ''L''), or disemvowelment of a piece of alphabetic text is rewriting it with all the vowel letters removed. This original sentence: :The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog would, after being disemvowelled, look like this: :Th qck brwn fx jmps vr th lzy dg Disemvoweling is a common feature of SMS language.〔 Because disemvoweling makes text legible only through significant cognitive effort, it is used by moderators on internet forums, newsgroups and blogs as a way to limit the effectiveness of unwanted postings or comments, such as rudeness or criticism. Disemvoweling maintains some transparency, both of the act and the underlying word, which would not be the case if the entire offending post is deleted. The word ''disemvoweling'' is a pun on ''vowel'' and ''disembowel''.〔 The word was used with precisely that meaning in the 1939 novel ''Finnegans Wake'' (p. 515). ==History== A technique dubbed ''splat out'' was used by Usenet moderators to prevent flamewars, by substituting a "splat" (i.e., asterisk) for some letters, often the vowels, of highly charged words in postings. Examples include ''Nazi''→''N *z *'', ''evolution''→'' *v *l *t * *n'', ''gun control''→''g *n c *ntr *l''. "The purpose is not to make the word unrecognizable but to make it a mention rather than a use." The term "disemvoweling" —attested from 1990 — was occasionally used for the splat-out of vowels.〔 Teresa Nielsen Hayden used the vowel-deletion technique in 2002 for internet forum moderation on her blog ''Making Light''. This was termed ''disemvoweling'' by Arthur D. Hlavaty later in the same thread. Nielsen Hayden joined the group blog ''Boing Boing'' as community manager in August 2007 , when it re-enabled comments on its posts,〔 〕 and implemented disemvoweling. Gawker Media sites adopted disemvoweling as a moderation tool in August 2008. On 30 October 2008, ''TIME'' magazine listed disemvoweling as #42 of their "Top 50 Inventions of 2008". Xeni Jardin, co-editor of ''Boing Boing'', said 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 types of behavior that are unacceptable. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Disemvoweling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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