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In the fields of Internet discussion and forum moderation, disemvoweling (also spelled disemvowelling) is the removal of vowels from text either as a method of self-censorship (for example, either "G*d" or "G-d" for those whose religious beliefs preclude writing God in full), or as a technique by forum moderators to suppress Internet trolling and other unwanted posting.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).

Disemvoweling would leave the first sentence of this article looking like this:

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

Disemvoweling text in this fashion reduces its readability. 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 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.[1]

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

References

  1. ^ Scholastic Teaching Resources, Scholastic, Accessed August 09, 2006

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