Can anybody think of an example of a hack in the sense of programming, but in a piece of writing? (Ie not hack as in bad writing, but clever expedient use of words possibly with subversive intent) Only one I can think of is DFW’s Consider the Lobster …http://www.gourmet.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster.html …
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surprised nobody mentioned puns, which strike me as the classic way to trojan horse one meaning through another. this isn't *writing* per se but it's fun to consider:https://twitter.com/nick_kapur/status/993521866651381764 …
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Nick Kapur @nick_kapurA thread of Chinese internet nicknames for NBA players. China is crazy for the NBA, but official sources use boring phonetic transcriptions, failing to take advantage of Chinese characters having both sound and meaning. Chinese netizens have "improved" on these official names.Show this thread1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
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I was going for a couple of abstraction levels higher
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