filters 2.55

The filters collection harks back to the late 1980s, when various text filters were written to munge written language in amusing ways. The earliest and best known were legends such as the Swedish Chef filter and B1FF.

This package contains the following filter commands:

1. b1ff: a satire of a stereotypical Usenet newbie

2. censor: comply with the CDA

3. chef: convert English to Mock Swedish

4. cockney: Cockney English

5. elee: k3wl hacker slang

6. fanboy: a stereotypical fan (supports custom fandoms)

7. fudd: Elmer Fudd

8. jethro: hillbilly text filter

9. jibberish: a random selection of these filters

10. jive: Jive English

11. ken: turn English into Cockney

12. kraut: a bad German accent

13. ky00te: a very cute accent

14. LOLCAT: as seen in Internet GIFs everywhere

15. nethackify: wiped-out text as found in nethack

16. newspeak: à la 1984

17. nyc: Brooklyn English

18. pirate: talk like a pirate

19. rasterman: straight from the keyboard of Carsten Haitzler

20. scottish: fake Scottish (Dwarven) accent

21. scramble: scramble the "inner" letters of each word

22. spammer: turn honest text into something liable to be flagged as spam

23. studly: studly caps.

24. uniencode: use glorious Unicode to the fullest possible extent

25. upside-down: flip the text upside down

The GNU project hosts a similar collection of filters, the GNU talkfilters.