Spring Cleaning 2009: The Rotten Words Project
Earth Day Update
On March 24th at Shafer Court on Virginia Commonwealth University Monroe Park Campus, I asked people to give me words they no longer wanted to use. This project is part of my presentation and final paper for my Ars Combinatoria class. Originally, I was going to present the results of my project on April 21st, but the date changed to April 28th.
Here is the list of collected words. Note: I kept the spelling of the words, except for the word in Japanese, added a hypthen or a forward slash to words that were counted as one, but needed more than one line to be written.
Gloaming Gypsy irregardless incentivize definitely Procrastination CUNT spic Retarded WANG NIGGA competencies BiAS (regret) [Japanese] “Good-Person" Shut-up Organic Maybe Cant MONEY FEAR CANCER ALiEN betrayal unoriginal CREDIT-DEFAULT-SWAP KAFFIR awesome POLITICA / POLITICS CORRUPTION Tripe DUALITY TAXES Fecal-Matter PUSSY Hate Interesting DIS / dis
Click here to see the pictures of these words. This is a Picasa album and you may use these pictures as long as you follow the Creative Commons License below.
This is the poem written exclusively with the collected words. I tried to keep the order in which I received the words, because I believe that the randomness makes the product more insterting. I added punctuation marks, but kept the spelling.
Rotten Words by Members of the VCU Community
Gloaming Gypsy
irregardless, incentivize, definitely
Procrastination
CUNT
spic Retarded
WANG NIGGA
competencies BiAS
regret “Good-Person" Shut-up.
Organic.
Maybe...Can't MONEY FEAR CANCER?
ALiEN = betrayal, unoriginal.
CREDIT DEFAULT SWAP.
KAFFIR
awesome POLITICA POLITICS.
CORRUPTION
Tripe DUALITY, TAXES,
Fecal-Matter
PUSSY Hate Interesting.
DIS / dis
Rotten Words by Lulú De Panbehchi is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
These are the video versions of the poem:
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This is an academic project. I am used collected words to write this poem. If you reproduce it, please give credit to the creator—myself, Lulú De Panbehchi—and the word donors—the VCU community. The website, pictures, video, and any recreation of the event and process of this project are used for academic purposes only.
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last update 29 april/abril 2009 ©2009 Lulú De Panbehchi, MATX, Virginia Commonwealth University.
