Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Spam as an educational tool
I was going through my gmail account spam folder and giggling at some of the sender names when I took note of a couple of them. I hate waste and I like words - descriptive words, words that I've never heard before, words that just sound funny. And spam is chock-full of all of them. I suddenly thought, "Hmmm, some of these words are very unusual...I wonder if anyone has thought to use them for good instead of evil?"
Take prolixity, for example. My son and I discussed what we thought it might mean before I looked it up. I thought unctuous was an interesting choice, as well. What about a rookery? Does everyone know where the Serengeti is? Of course, the juxtaposition of some of the ordinary words are still funny. Some current examples from my inbox are "Inflicting I. Teaspoonful," "Cetus S. Bumping," "Kawabata S. Spud" and "Segmented P. Snowplows".
My other thought was, "If we start using spam, a decidedly negative entity, for positive purposes, maybe it will wither and die." How bad can that be?
Just a thought.
'night.
Take prolixity, for example. My son and I discussed what we thought it might mean before I looked it up. I thought unctuous was an interesting choice, as well. What about a rookery? Does everyone know where the Serengeti is? Of course, the juxtaposition of some of the ordinary words are still funny. Some current examples from my inbox are "Inflicting I. Teaspoonful," "Cetus S. Bumping," "Kawabata S. Spud" and "Segmented P. Snowplows".
My other thought was, "If we start using spam, a decidedly negative entity, for positive purposes, maybe it will wither and die." How bad can that be?
Just a thought.
'night.
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