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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Dissociated Press</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dispress.html" title="dispress"/><link rel="next" href="distribution.html" title="distribution"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Dissociated Press</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dispress.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="distribution.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Dissociated-Press"/><dt xmlns="" id="Dissociated-Press"><b>Dissociated Press</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [play on ‘Associated Press’; perhaps inspired by a
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reference in the 1950 Bugs Bunny cartoon <i class="citetitle">What's Up,
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Doc?</i>] An algorithm for transforming any text into potentially
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humorous garbage even more efficiently than by passing it through a
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<a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>. The algorithm starts by printing any
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<tt class="literal">N</tt> consecutive words (or letters) in the text. Then at
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every step it searches for any random occurrence in the original text of
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the last <tt class="literal">N</tt> words (or letters) already printed and then
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prints the next word or letter. <a href="../E/EMACS.html"><i class="glossterm">EMACS</i></a> has a handy
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command for this. Here is a short example of word-based Dissociated Press
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applied to an earlier version of this Jargon File:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p>
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wart: <span class="grammar">n.</span> A small, crocky
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<a href="../F/feature.html"><i class="glossterm">feature</i></a> that sticks out of an array (C has no checks
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for this). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the phrase is bent
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so as to be not worth paying attention to the medium in question.
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</p></blockquote></div><p>Here is a short example of letter-based Dissociated Press applied to
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the same source:</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><p> window sysIWYG: <span class="grammar">n.</span> A bit was named aften <span class="pronunciation">/bee´t@/</span> prefer to use the other
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guy's re, especially in every cast a chuckle on neithout getting into useful
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informash speech makes removing a featuring a move or usage actual
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abstractionsidered <span class="grammar">interj.</span> Indeed spectace
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logic or problem! </p></blockquote></div><p>A hackish idle pastime is to apply letter-based Dissociated Press to
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a random body of text and <a href="../V/vgrep.html"><i class="glossterm">vgrep</i></a> the output in hopes
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of finding an interesting new word. (In the preceding example,
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‘window sysIWYG’ and ‘informash’ show some
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promise.) Iterated applications of Dissociated Press usually yield better
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results. Similar techniques called <span class="firstterm">travesty
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generators</span> have been employed with considerable satirical effect
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to the utterances of Usenet flamers; see
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