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The orthodox spellings of common words are often altered to make a political point, particularly in informal writing on the Internet, but also in some serious political writing that opposes the status quo. For example, letters used to represent the hard "k" sound can be replaced with the letters "KKK," the initials of Ku Klux Klan; or the letter "S" can be replaced with a dollar sign ($). Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ...
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 Barcelona squat and anarchist center, labeled "OKUPA Y RESISTE" It was common among 1960s and early 1970s United States leftists to write Amerika rather than "America" in referring to the United States. [1], [2], [3], [4], [5] It is likely that this was originally an allusion to the German spelling of America, and intended to be suggestive of Nazism, a hypothesis that the Oxford English Dictionary supports. It may additionally have been an allusion to the title of Franz Kafka's 1927 novel Amerika. I am the original photographer. ...
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The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ...
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Nazism was the ideology held by the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, commonly called NSDAP or the Nazi Party), which was led by its Führer (leader), Adolf Hitler. ...
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1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Amerika book cover Amerika was a novel written by Franz Kafka, published in 1927, which describes the adventures of a sixteen-year-old European emigrant called Karl Rossman in the United States, as a punishment for being seduced by a maid, to meet his uncle who receives him at his...
In the 1987 TV miniseries Amerika, it denoted a Soviet-conquered America. Amerika (suggesting a Russian name for the United States, see Alternative political spellings) is an American television miniseries that was broadcast in 1987. ...
Detractors sometimes spell former president Bill Clinton's name as "Klinton" or "Klintoon". William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...
A similar usage in Spanish (and in Italian too) is to write okupa rather than "ocupa" (meaning a building or area occupied by squatters [6]), which is particularly remarkable because the letter "k" is not found in native Spanish words. It probably stems from the Basque language, Euskera, which does often use the letter "k", and is spoken in a region which abounds in political radicalism. This is particularly associated with Spanish anarchist movements. This article is about occupying land without permission. ...
Basque may refer to: The Basque language. ...
Basque is the language spoken by the Basque people, who live in northern Spain and the adjoining area of southwestern France. ...
Anarchism (the political philosophy advocating a libertarian society without hierarchy, based on mutual aid and voluntary cooperation) historically gained the most support and influence in Spain, especially in the seventy or so years before Francisco Francos victory in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939. ...
"KKK" replacing "C" or "K" The most common usage of the letters "kkk" in alternative political spelling is the spelling of "America" as Amerikkka. A reference to the Ku Klux Klan, this is often done to indicate the belief that the United States or American society is fundamentally racist, oppressive and corrupt. The earliest known usage of "Amerikkka" recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is in 1970, in a journal called Black World. Presumably, this was an extrapolation from the then already widespread "Amerika". Members of the second Ku Klux Klan at a rally during the 1920s. ...
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The spelling "Amerikkka" came into greater use after the 1990 release of the Gangsta rap album AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted by Ice Cube. This article is about the year. ...
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AmeriKKKas Most Wanted was Ice Cubes debut solo album after his acrimonious split from N.W.A.. It was originally released May 16, 1990(see 1990 in music). ...
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The San Francisco Bay View regularly spells America as "Amerikkka". [7], [8], [9] San Francisco Bay View is self-promoted as the National Black Newspaper of the Year. ...
The letters "KKK" have been inserted into many other words, to indicate similar perceived racism, oppression or corruption. Common alternative spellings include:
John David Ashcroft (born May 9, 1942) was the 79th Attorney General of the United States. ...
Pat Buchanan Patrick Joseph Buchanan (born November 2, 1938), is an American author, syndicated columnist, and television commentator. ...
The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties in the United States. ...
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Capitalism Capitalism has been defined in various ways. ...
William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...
Christianity is a monotheistic religion centered on the life, teachings, and actions of Jesus, the Christ, as recounted in the New Testament. ...
The Republican Party was established in 1854 by a coalition of former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers who opposed the expansion of slavery and held a Hamiltonian vision for modernizing the United States. ...
A segregated beach in South Africa, 1982. ...
The term Yankee has a variety of meanings. ...
"$" replacing "S"; "€" replacing "E"; "£" replacing "L" The dollar sign can be inserted in the place of the letter "S" to indicate plutocracy, greed, corruption, or the perceived immoral or unethical accumulation of money. For example: A plutocracy is a form of government where all the states decisions are centralized in an affluent wealthy class of citizenry, and the degree of economic inequality is high while the level of social mobility is low. ...
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- Bu$h (George W. Bush, George Herbert Walker Bush, or any member of the Bush family) [20][21], [22]
- E$$o (Esso or Exxon Mobil): used by the UK-based Stop Esso campaign encouraging people to boycott Esso, in protest against Esso's opposition to the Kyoto Protocol
- I$rael (Israel) [23]
- Micro$oft, M$ (Microsoft): used to emphasize Microsoft's business practices as being more focused on making money than producing good products. Was convicted under United States anti-trust law of taking unfair advantage of its monopoly position. [24] See also: Criticism of Microsoft.
- T$R (TSR): A common epithet on the Internet used by fans of the company's products to refer to their habit of threatening to sue their fans over fan web sites (the company has since gone bankrupt and was purchased by Wizards of the Coast, purchased in turn by Hasbro).
- Co$, or $cientology (Church of Scientology): used by opponents to the Church of Scientology to imply that the religion is only about money. [25], [26]
- Ru$$ia (Russia) : used in reference to rampant corruption [27]
- $ocialist (Socialist) : problem of corruption in socialist politics [28]
- Uncle $am (Uncle Sam) [29]
- United $tates, United $tate$, U$, U$A (United States) [30]
- Wa$hington (Washington) [31]
A recent related usage is replacing "E" with the Euro sign "€", as in €$$O, €urope [32], and €C for the European Commission (EC) (which is used by those critical of alleged bribery and corruption in the EC). George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. ...
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Barbara Bush, Jeb Bush, George H.W. Bush, Laura Bush, and George W. Bush watch tee ball on the White House lawn. ...
An Esso Station in Toronto Esso in Higashi-Osaka Esso is an international trade name used by ExxonMobil and its related companies. ...
Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), headquartered in Irving, Texas, is an oil producer and distributor formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. ...
Greenpeace protest against Esso The Stop Esso campaign is a campaign by Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and People and Planet aimed at boycotting the oil company Esso because they believe it is doing damage to the environment. ...
A boycott is a refusal to buy, sell, or otherwise trade with an individual or business who is generally believed by the participants in the boycott to be doing something morally wrong. ...
Kyoto Protocol Opened for signature December 11, 1997 in Kyoto, Japan Entered into force February 16, 2005. ...
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, SEHK: 4338) is the worlds largest software corporation, with 2005 global annual sales of close to $40 billion USD and about 64,000 employees in 85 countries and regions. ...
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In economics, a monopoly (from the Greek monos, one + polein, to sell) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a kind of product or service. ...
Microsoft Corporation has been the focus of much controversy in the computer industry almost since its founding in 1975. ...
TSR, Inc. ...
Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is a publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. ...
The Hasbro logo uses a smile to indicate the carefree nature of its products. ...
Official Scientology Cross Symbol The Church of Scientology was founded in 1954 by the late author L. Ron Hubbard. ...
The color red and particularly the red flag are traditional symbols of Socialism. ...
J. M. Flaggs Uncle Sam recruited soldiers for World War I. Uncle Sam is a national personification of the United States dating from the War of 1812. ...
Official language(s) None Capital Olympia Largest city Seattle Area - Total - Width - Length - % water - Latitude - Longitude Ranked 18th 184,824 km² 385 km 580 km 6. ...
The euro (symbol: €; banking code: EUR) is the single currency of the following twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain; collectively also known as the eurozone. ...
The European Commission (formally the Commission of the European Communities) is the executive body of the European Union. ...
Bribery is a crime defined by Blacks Law Dictionary as the offering, giving, receiving, or soliciting of any item of value to influence the actions as an official or other person in discharge of a public or legal duty. ...
Swastika replacing "S" During George W. Bush's trip to Argentina for the Summit of the Americas in November 2005, many protesters were seen with T-shirts and signs in which the "s" in Bush was replaced with a right-facing swastika, in the style used by the Nazis. George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. ...
The Summit of the Americas is the name for one of a sequence of summits bringing together the countries of the Americas for discussion of a variety of issues. ...
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2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A right-facing Swastika in decorative Hindu form For the town in Ontario, see Swastika, Ontario. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Nazism. ...
An earlier replacement is the Sig rune as used by the Nazi SS. Basque leftist nationalists have for exampled spelled "PSOE" as PᛋᛋOE. Two Sig Runes: The symbol of the Nazi SS Sig Rune is the name given by Guido von List for the Sigel or s rune of the futhark. ...
The infamous double-sig rune SS insignia. ...
The Gernika oak is a symbol of Basque freedoms. ...
The Spanish Socialist Workers Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español or PSOE) is one of the main parties of Spain. ...
Hammer and Sickle replacing "C" During the preisdency of Bill Clinton, some far-right anti-Clinton protesters held signs with a hammer-and-sickle replacing the "C" in Clinton due to his percieved leftist tendencies. (This has also happened with Hillary Clinton as well.) The ACLU has also seen this treatment by its critics, being dubbed such things as "American Communist Lawyers Union" and the like. William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...
"@" replacing "A" and/or "O" Since at least 1980, Anarchists have used the "at sign" ("@") as a readily handy character to represent the circled letter A. This has been extended to substituting it for the letter "A" as in the Crass fanzine "Toxic Gr@fity" [33] 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
Anarchism is derived from the word anarchist, which originated as a term of abuse, first used against early working class radicals including the Diggers of the English Revolution and the sans-culottes of the French Revolution. ...
Look up @ in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A commercial at, @, also called an at symbol, an at sign, or just at, is a symbolic abbreviation for the word at. ...
This article discusses various anarchist symbols, including the circle-A and the black flag. ...
For information about the anarchist writer see Chris Crass Crass was an influential English anarchist punk rock band. ...
A fanzine (see also: zine) is a nonprofessional publication produced by fans of a particular subject for the pleasure of others who share their interest. ...
This may have influenced the usage in Spanish and other Romance languages of this symbol as a politically correct substitute for so-called sexist language. For example, the Spanish and Portuguese words "amigo" and "amiga" would be replaced with amig@. The character is intended to resemble a mix of the letters "o" and "a". According to the Portuguese and Spanish grammar, this "mix" is not needed because in both languages the masculine grammatical gender is inclusive (it can refer to both males and females), but the feminine gender is exclusive (only for females). There is no English-like neuter gender in either Spanish or Portuguese. The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages or New Latin languages, are a subset of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Latin dialects spoken by the common people in what is known as Latin Europe (Italian/Portuguese/Spanish Europa latina, Catalan Europa llatina, French Europe latine, Romanian Europa...
Political correctness is the alteration of language to redress real or alleged injustices and discrimination or to avoid offense. ...
Gender-neutral language (gender-generic, gender-inclusive, non-sexist, or sex-neutral language) is language that attempts to refer neither to males nor females when discussing an abstract or hypothetical person whose sex cannot otherwise be determined, as opposed to more traditional language forms, which may use male or female...
Spanish is a relatively inflected language, with a two-gender system and about fifty conjugated forms per verb, but no noun declension and limited pronominal declension. ...
"*" replacing "O" and "A" or "I" and "E" In Italian web writings (chats, forums, mailing-lists, pages, etc.) it is common to see "*" replacing the final vowels "o" and "a" or "i" and "e" (respectively masculine and feminine singular and masculine and feminine plural). Even though one could think this form lack of number, it is actually deduced from the context, so "*" (generally) replace only a pair of vowel: "amic*" instead of "amico/a" ("friend") XOR instead of "amici/amiche" ("friends"); yes, in the last case "*" is instead of the pair ("i", "he"), that is not a pair of vowels. Exclusive disjunction (usual symbol xor) is a logical operator that results in true if one of the operands (not both) is true. ...
A more 'complex' substitution may involve articles: "solidali con * compagn*" --- if it is singular, it is instead of "solidali con il/la compagno/a" ("solidly behind the comrade"); if it is plural, it is instead of "solidali con i/le compagni/e" ("solidly behind the comrades"). More concisely the first "*" stand for ("il", "la") XOR ("gli", "le"), the second one stand for ("o", "a") XOR ("i", "e"). Exclusive disjunction (usual symbol xor) is a logical operator that results in true if one of the operands (not both) is true. ...
Exclusive disjunction (usual symbol xor) is a logical operator that results in true if one of the operands (not both) is true. ...
Hidden puns Occasionally a word written in its orthodox spelling is altered with internal capital letters, hyphens, italics, or other devices so as to highlight a fortuitous pun.
After the controversial U.S. presidential election, 2000, the alleged improprieties of the election prompted the use of such titles as pResident and (p)resident [34] [35] for George W. Bush. The same effects were also used for Bill Clinton during and after Clinton's impeachment hearings. These devices were intended to suggest that the president was merely the resident of the White House rather than the legitimate president of the US. Presidential electoral votes by state. ...
George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States. ...
William Jefferson Bill Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III on August 19, 1946) was the 42nd President of the United States, serving from 1993 to 2001. ...
The southern side of the White House The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America. ...
Similarly, the controversial United States law, the USA PATRIOT Act, is sometimes called the patRiot Act, (pat)Riot Act, PAT Riot Act or PAT RIOT Act [36] by its opponents. President George W. Bush signing the Patriot Act in the White Houses East Room on October 26, 2001. ...
The perception that membership in the United Nations is counter to US interests is denoted by the terms Un-ited Nations or EU-nited Nations (similarity to EU - European Union). Similarly, the perception that the United Nations is ineffectual (castrated) is denoted by the term EUN-ited Nations (similarity to eunuch). A eunuch is an infertile human male whose testicles have either been removed (deliberately or by accident) or are otherwise non-functional. ...
Feminist theologian Mary Daly has used a virgule (slash) to make a point about patriarchy: gyn/ecology, stag/nation, the/rapist. [37] Mary Daly (born 1928) is a radical feminist theologian, a mother of modern feminist theology and thealogy. ...
A solidus, oblique or slash, /, is a punctuation mark. ...
Patriarchy (from Greek: patria meaning father and arché meaning rule) is the anthropological term used to define the sociological condition where male members of a society tend to predominate in positions of power; with the more powerful the position, the more likely it is that a male will hold that...
In French, where con is an insulting word comparable to 'damned fool', the word conservateur 'conservative' has been written con-servateur [38], con… servateur [39], or con(servateur) [40].
Additional examples Intentional mis-spellings, or spellings used to emphasize dialect, are often used to suggest illiteracy or ignorance. Thus pubblik skoolz, or public screwels, the latter initially associated with talk radio. Individual schools are also treated this way, "Hahvahd" and "Nucular" being well-known examples. Journalists may make a politicized editorial decision by choosing to differentially retain misspelled words, mispronounced words, dialect variants, or interjections. A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area. ...
Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. ...
Editing is the process of preparing language, images, or sound for publication through correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications. ...
See also This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...
This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...
Herstory refers to history from a feminist perspective. ...
Womyn is the best-known one of a number of alternate spellings which some feminists promote as a way to degender the English word women and as female empowerment. ...
External links - On de spelling and use of various words by Mangwiro A. Sadiki-Yisrael
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