is there a name for this?

[Jonathan Lighter]

No "deconspaminate" either.

  JL

"Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU> wrote:
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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:
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>>> 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

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