[ Note from El Oscuro - this is really just a glitch caused by
less-than-attentive programming on Yahoo!'s end and not, as some have
suggested, a massive left-wing conspiracy. This does, however,
expose a glaring deficiency in the language skills of many Americans:
the bug also changes "medieval" to "medireview" - do a Google search
for "medireview" and you will find hundreds of documents, essays,
articles and so on from students and supposedly serious researchers
who actually use "medireview" as a synonym for "medieval!" This, of
course, only happens in America where "medieval" is the normal
spelling of that word; those in the rest of the English-speaking world
who properly spell it "mediaeval" (with the ae typed as a
ligature if possible) are immune. Don't believe me? Visit
merriamwebster.com or try looking up "medireview" in any dictionary!
Question the competence of any mediaeval historian who actually uses
the word "medireview" - he might as well pretend to be an expert on
surfing the Weeb! ]
Yahoo's Seven Word Fragments You Can't Say In HTML Email
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eval => review
mocha => espresso
expression => statement
javascript => java-script
jscript => j-script
vbscript => vb-script
livescript => live-script
Yahoo's hack doesn't respect word boundaries: so evaluate would become
reviewuate, retrieval becomes retrireview.
Note that plain text email is left untouched - only HTML mail gets this
treatment.
There are also a few tags that are verboten:
link => xlink
script => cursive
object => xobject
embed => xembed
body => xbody
iframe => xframe
layer => xlayer
applet => xapplet
meta => xmeta
form => xform
See <URL:http://www.ntk.net/2002/07/12/> for more details.
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