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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>splat out</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="splat.html" title="splat"/><link rel="next" href="splork-.html" title="splork!"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">splat out</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="splat.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="splork-.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="splat-out"/><dt xmlns="" id="splat-out"><b>splat out</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet; syn. <span class="firstterm">disemvowel</span>] To
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partially obscure a potentially provocative word by substituting
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<a href="splat.html"><i class="glossterm">splat</i></a> characters for some of its letters (usually,
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but not always, the vowels). The purpose is not to make the word
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unrecognizable but to make it a mention rather than a use, so that no
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flamewar ensues. Words often splatted out include N*z* (see
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<a href="../G/Godwins-Law.html"><i class="glossterm">Godwin's Law</i></a>), k*bo* (see
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<a href="../K/KIBO.html"><i class="glossterm">KIBO</i></a>, sense 2), *v*l*t**n (anywhere fundamentalists
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might be lurking), *b*rt**n, and g*n c*ntr*l. Compare
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