Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Bantrum (unreal words generated by spam filters)

Over on my other blog, before I set up this Wordsmith version, I launched a page called Bantrum. I started out collecting the 'words' that are generated by spam filters. Bantrum was one of them and it seemed to sum up the whole concept really. So I collected, and I translated them and turned them into my own mini dictionary. I've given each of them a definition. If you decide to go over and take a look at them I think you might enjoy it. Oh - and when you get to horse it really did offer me that as 'random' letters!

The picture is a detail from a sculpture:
House of Knowledge
Jaume Plensa
Part of the Beyond Limits exhibition at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, 2008
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4 comments:

Sandra Davies said...

Have you come across 'The Meaning of Liff' by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Meaning-Liff-Douglas-Adams/dp/0330281216/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1300205956&sr=1-1-fkmr0
[and this post had 'ledork' as a Bantrum ...

15 March 2011 at 16:22
MorningAJ said...

Oh yes - I love that book. I've called bouncy, hairy dogs Scamblesbys ever since I read it!

15 March 2011 at 20:16
Akelamalu said...

Word verification quite often makes me laugh with what it comes up with. :)

16 March 2011 at 10:01
Jannie Funster said...

Some of those are HILARIOUS!!

Thanks for some fun grins on those! :)

xo

16 March 2011 at 22:00

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