Subversion at the spam factory?

Language Log 2013-04-28

Summary:

So this is new, at least for me — the latest batch of a few thousand spam comments (adding to the pile of 5,095,703 caught so far) pretends to come from people using negatively-evaluated pseudonyms in Spanish, like caca, ladrones, or indecentes:Or mierda, corruptos, etc.:Does this refer to a Hispanic inversion-of-lexical-values subculture, like English sick [...]

Link:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4588

Updated:

04/28/2013, 09:37

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Tags:

language on the internets

Authors:

Mark Liberman

Date tagged:

04/28/2013, 11:50

Date published:

04/28/2013, 09:34