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"text": "\"What happened?\" the Amigoid asked. / \"D'nt knw,\" she said. \"Jst wk p nd hrd y tw tlkng n thn, sddnly nd wtht wrnng, thr ws ths ns.\" / \"What?\" Robotech_Master asked. / \"I think I know what happened,\" Lawrence said. \"It must be part of the Silliness that's infecting the Author's Altiverse.\" / \"S wht hppnd? / \"You've been disemvoweled,\" the Amigoid informed her.",
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"text": "Edna [Dame Edna Everage] reveals that she will always outmuscle [Barry] Humphries, disemvowelling his name to reduce it to the interjection \"Hmmph!\"",
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"ref": "1995 October 28, strange days indeed [username], “AA: is that a nerfsword in your pocket, or …”, in bit.listserv.superguy (Usenet), message-ID <Pine.LNX.3.91.951028150058.20293A-100000@sojourn1.sojourn.com>",
"text": "\"What happened?\" the Amigoid asked. / \"D'nt knw,\" she said. \"Jst wk p nd hrd y tw tlkng n thn, sddnly nd wtht wrnng, thr ws ths ns.\" / \"What?\" Robotech_Master asked. / \"I think I know what happened,\" Lawrence said. \"It must be part of the Silliness that's infecting the Author's Altiverse.\" / \"S wht hppnd? / \"You've been disemvoweled,\" the Amigoid informed her.",
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"text": "Back to our Internet trolling behavior, some comment board moderators have tried to control trolling by \"disemvoweling,\" removing all the vowels from the offending comments of trolls. This punishing practice makes troll comments easier to detect and harder to read, and therefore, less likely to generate the kind of outraged response a troll finds rewarding. Disemvoweling punishes the troll and effectively has decreased the numbers of offensive comments and hijacked comment threads on many message boards.",
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