is there a name for this?

[Alice Faber]

Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
> On Oct 23, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Alice Faber wrote:
>
>> Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>>> On Oct 23, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Scot LaFaive wrote:
>>>
>>>> Although this is the first I've thought of it, I think I will
>>>> create the camp of "despamafication." Sounds severe and unstoppable.
>>>
>>> yes, properly serious.  but i'd use the spelling "despamification".
>>>
>>
>> My first impulse is toward "despamicization", though I'm not sure why.
>
> hoi polloi are not on your side: no webhits for "despamicization" (or
> "despamafication"); ca. 35 for "despamification"; ca. 15,900 for
> "despamming".
>
> arnold, always astonished when *nobody* seems to have tried out some
> possible form

Marching to the beat of a different drummer (,) I am.

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