geek vengeance: disemvoweling

I left this comment about disemvoweling elsewhere:

The technique has been described as the geekish equivalent of pulling down the pants of the kid everyone else on the playground doesn’t like. My biggest complaint is its supporters say you can decipher the meaning if you want to, but that’s blatantly not true: “historical” and “ahistorical”, for example, disemvowel exactly the same way.

It’s a remarkably easy technique to abuse. On BoingBoing, a moderator called Antinous is (or was, anyway) a d...