A friend emails me this:

While discussing an article on students' use of 'inapproprate'slang or
cliche phrases in writing papers or evaluations of classic works such as
Hamlet, someone added this comment:


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There's something about wading through this sort of pig-latin gibberishification that makes the language come alive for me - by forcing a limited sort of decoding, it removes the passage from the parts of the mind that read reflexively, and compels one to read the text closely, directly, as if encountered for the first time.

Update: he tells me that it was from this Fark article comments section.