{"id":4588,"date":"2013-04-28T08:34:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T13:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2013-04-28T08:37:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T13:37:08","slug":"subversion-at-the-spam-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=4588","title":{"rendered":"Subversion at the spam factory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So this is new, at least for me &#8212; the latest batch of a few thousand spam comments (adding to the pile of 5,095,703 caught so far) pretends to come from people using negatively-evaluated pseudonyms in Spanish, like <em>caca, ladrones<\/em>, or <em>indecentes<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/caca2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/caca2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Or <em>mierda<\/em>, <em>corruptos<\/em>, etc.:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/caca1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/caca1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does this refer to a Hispanic inversion-of-lexical-values subculture, like English <em><a href=\"http:\/\/thissongissick.com\/blog\/\">sick<\/a><\/em> for \"really good\"? Or is some underpaid nickname-inventor on the spam-factory assembly line engaging in a little cross-linguistic sabotage? Inquiring minds want to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is new, at least for me &#8212; the latest batch of a few thousand spam comments (adding to the pile of 5,095,703 caught so far) pretends to come from people using negatively-evaluated pseudonyms in Spanish, like caca, ladrones, or indecentes:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-on-the-internets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}