Fallout 3

[Spazz]

Indeed

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whats a bollox?

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Its a net derivative like hax or n00b.
Essentially it is simply a letter swap. X for cks.

Why a letter swap?

Well the term Bollocks has been used in twentieth century Great Britain to describe, or represent the word Testicle. Which is a sexual organ used in the production of the male Gamete - sperm.
As a consequence it has been discovered that some lexicographical fascists have been able to to express - effectively - disgust and abbhoration for what is essentially just a series of letters.
Subsequently we find that many forum hosts, keen to show that they can adhere to the illusion that is social conditioning (and is defined today as being 'PC' or 'Politically Correct'), will often block the use of the word Bollock.

Generally speaking and particularly within the gaming genre there has been a move to claim language back.
Giving language to the people that use it everyday rather than allowing those people who would use language as an academic excercise to prove their intellectual supremecy over another is something the internet has done rather well.
Terms such as n00b and rotf, h4XX0r and lmao are examples of how language transcends boundaries set by the establishment.
Language has been used as a means to control the population.
Usually by association.

In fifities USA Communist as a word was only ever used in a negative context. Communist was associated with the words treason, evil, un-american etc and so the powers that be could control, frighteningly effectively, an entire nations behaviour.

Soviet, Chinese and even Korean governments have moved the other way, associating the term Communism with positive lexicography and so, blindly, the people have followed their governments into long periods of poverty and distress in the name of brotherhood, fairness and equality.

Actually Communism refers to an albeit flaweed philisophical ideology that has human rights at it's heart.

So historically we have seen governments and academic establishments use language as a tool of power.
Anyone who has failed an assignment because of incorrect grammer or incorrect spelling has experienced the power that the academics weild using language as their weapon.

Evidence of the right and true movement to demand our language back comes with this quote from Chaucer, a poet in Engalnd in the 14th Century.

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

'All that glitters ain't gold.' Spelled wrong, grammatically wrong - if you compare it to todays 'English' - but still 'English' none the less.
Enlgish has changed because language is controlled by the people. You and me that is.
Not the man who marks you five out of ten for spelling - despite what they may say.

So the revolution that is 'netspeak' is legitimate, normal and enevitable.
We use terms and words that are derived from letters AND numbers. We use words that are formed from abbreviations and we are right minded pioneers so to do.

Simply put then, Bollox is the next generation of the word Bollocks.
Considered to be the vulgar slang for Testicle but proven in a court case that brought the word fascists to their collective knees to be an old English term for Priest and therefore not vulgar at all.

In the context of my post Bollox is used a negative term meaing that something is very bad.

In typical English fashion however, it can be contextually used to describe soemthing as very very good.

That however is another lecture. But I doubt if I can be bothered to write another of these even if they are the absolute dogs bollox!

Hope this helps mate.