Obfuscator

Solutions

Critics can use the Obfuscator to make any text more complicated without losing any of the original words of the text.


Critics

Exegesis got you down? Explication got your head going round? Tired of looking for that kernel of meaning in art? If you're suspicious of the practice of criticism that tries to interpret art to reconstruct an intended sense, or relate what an artist was trying to convey in simpler linguistic terms, then the Obfuscator is the answer for you. Elevate your criticism to the level of 'big T' Theory by producing consistent increases in difficulty on all major readability tests!

Product

The Obfuscator creates a new text from your old text by a simple yet elegant process: it takes each word, and finds longer words that contain the original word in their constituent letters, giving you the option of which to choose. For instance, if you obfuscate the word cat, the Obfuscator gives you the option of choosing from chat, cardinality, exacerbating, incarnation, socialist, vilification, and witchcraft. The Obfuscator takes just three easy steps:

  1. Enter text for processing.
  2. Select new words from the lists provided.
  3. Read and save the obfuscated text to a file.

Without losing the words of the original text, The Obfuscator creates--as if by magic--a new more complex text through the power of obfuscation.


Sample

This fragment of a children's song has been obfuscated with The PBFB Obfuscator

The Original Text

the cat came back
the very next day
the cat came back
he thought he was a goner
but the cat came back
he just wouldnt stay away

The PBFB Obfuscated Text

brothel carting scampers blackouts
interchanged diversifying contextually budgetary
astonishment consolidating charmed blackberries
brandishes thoughts frighten wails damask trigonometry
beauty breathes captive's chairmen black
archaicness jousted wouldnt standby stalwartly

The Original Text Revealed

brothel carting scampers blackouts

interchanged diversifying contextually budgetary

astonishment consolidating charmed blackberries

brandishes thoughts frighten wails damask trigonometry

beauty breathes captive's chairmen black

archaicness jousted wouldnt standby stalwartly

The text has been obfuscated beyond recognition, showing the power of the PBFB Obfuscator to make even the most simple children's song unwieldy, plodding, and needlessly complex.

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