Flaming (Internet)
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| - | "In addition to sharing his expertise in languages and [[verbal aggression]], [[Reinhold Aman]] was inclined to a [[vituperative]] mode of discourse and is known in certain [[Usenet newsgroups]] as one inclined to participate in [[flame wars]]."--Sholem Stein | + | "In addition to sharing his expertise in languages and [[Verbal aggressiveness|verbal aggression]], [[Reinhold Aman]] was inclined to a [[vituperative]] mode of discourse and is known in certain [[Usenet newsgroups]] as one inclined to participate in [[Flaming (Internet)|flame wars]]."--Sholem Stein |
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| - | '''Reinhold Aman''' (April 8, 1936 – March 2, 2019) was a former [[chemical engineer]] and professor of [[German language|German]], and the publisher of ''[[Maledicta]]'', a [[scholarly journal]] dedicated entirely to the study of offensive language, also known as [[maledictology]]. | + | '''Flaming''' is the online act of posting [[insult]]s, often laced with [[profanity]] or other [[offensive language]] on [[social networking site]]s. |
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| - | ==Career== | + | |
| - | Aman was born in [[Fürstenzell]] near [[Passau]], [[Bavaria]]. Prior to working as a translator and clerk for the [[U.S. Army]] in [[Frankfurt]], he studied chemical engineering in [[Augsburg]] and later worked as a chemical analyst and petroleum chemist in Frankfurt, [[Munich]] and [[Montreal]]. He moved to [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin|Milwaukee]] in 1959, and worked there as a metallurgist and analytical chemist. | + | |
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| - | Aman received his baccalaureate from the [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]] in 1965, and his Ph.D. from the [[University of Texas]] in 1968. His dissertation was entitled ''"Der Kampf in Wolframs Parzival"'' ("The Battle in [[Wolfram von Eschenbach| Wolfram]]'s ''[[Parzival]]''".) During his college years he taught [[German language|German]], [[French language|French]], [[Spanish language|Spanish]], and [[English language|English]] at various local [[high school]]s, mostly on a part-time basis. In his last year at Texas, he also served as a [[teaching assistant]] and [[teaching associate]]. | + | |
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| - | From 1968 to 1974, Aman was an assistant professor of German at the [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]] (which he later dismissed as "Dungheap U"), where he taught undergraduate and graduate level courses in German [[grammar]], [[Stylistics (linguistics)|stylistics]], [[conversation]], [[phonetics]], [[philology]], [[medieval literature |medieval]] and [[Baroque]] literature, [[dialectology]], [[bibliography]], and [[research methods]]. | + | |
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| - | Apart from ''Maledicta'', Aman published ''Bayrisch-Österreichisches Schimpfwörterbuch'' ("Bavarian-Austrian Curse Dictionary") and shorter monographs, as well as various books, including ''Hillary Clinton's Pen Pal'' , a guide to the slang and mores of American [[prisons]], directed to [[Hillary Clinton]]. At the time of writing, Clinton was experiencing legal difficulties, and Aman claimed he wanted to turn his recent term in Federal prison (see below) to use by helping her understand the subculture, customs and specialized [[argot]], so that she could avoid potentially-lethal ''faux pas''. | + | |
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| - | ==Prison term== | + | |
| - | In 1993, Aman was sentenced to 27 months in [[Federal Bureau of Prisons|federal prison]] for mailing, after a bitter divorce, two threatening postcards to his ex-wife and the allegedly threatening 2-page pamphlet "Legal Slimebags of Wisconsin" to many Wisconsin lawyers and judges. The postcards in question had pasted-up headlines of news articles about bitter ex-husbands killing their ex-wives. He served 15.5 months at Santa Rita, [[Federal Correctional Institution, Terminal Island|Terminal Island]], [[Federal Correctional Institution, Lompoc|Lompoc]], and [[Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin|Dublin]] (now a Federal prison for women only), and was released in February 1995. | + | |
| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | * [[Cyberbullying]] | ||
| + | * [[Eristic]] | ||
| + | * [[Fisking]] | ||
| + | * [[Flame wars]] | ||
| + | * ''[[Forumwarz]]'' | ||
| + | * [[Godwin's law]] | ||
| + | * "[[It's okay to be white]]" | ||
| + | * [[Troll (Internet)|Internet troll]] | ||
| + | * [[Meow Wars]] | ||
| + | * [[Smack talk]] | ||
| + | * [[Social software]] | ||
| + | * [[Spiral of silence#Internet|Spiral of silence on the Internet]] | ||
| + | * [[Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture]] | ||
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Flaming is the online act of posting insults, often laced with profanity or other offensive language on social networking sites.
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See also
- Cyberbullying
- Eristic
- Fisking
- Flame wars
- Forumwarz
- Godwin's law
- "It's okay to be white"
- Internet troll
- Meow Wars
- Smack talk
- Social software
- Spiral of silence on the Internet
- Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture
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