Mastodon instance where you can't post the letter "e": https://oulipo.social/public/local 🙃
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- Wait at least 2 months before reposting
- No explicitly political content (about political figures, political events, elections and so on), !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca can be better place for that
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Laittakaa meemejä tänne.
- Odota ainakin 2 kuukautta ennen meemin postaamista uudelleen
- Ei selkeän poliittista sisältöä (poliitikoista, poliittisista tapahtumista, vaaleista jne) parempi paikka esim. !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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A bit of a drag that a lot of local posts look so short and cut off—avoiding that fifth glyph isn't particularly difficult. I was hoping individuals willing to sign up to this community would find joy in writing out paragraphs about various things.
Did you... Did you do the thing there? There's no e
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Bingo, saw an opportunity and had to jump on it.
They- Fuck! I already lost...
Yeah, I tried it in my other comment, and at first it started with "I think, folks..." which was already a dead end, because any continuation I tried would eventually need a "they". Kind of wild that something as basic as plural can fuck you up. 😅
I think, you usually post, if you got a thing to say. And thus you want to say that thing, not look for formulations all day long...
You might find it laborious at first, but as you post, it will turn natural. It's not what I would ask of most, but to join a Mastodon location all about that act? It did disappoint a bit skimming local posts; it's fun to do this activity!
In English, not using "e" seems like the true struggle.
(Sentence above free of "a"s).
Fuck you.
Ah, classic rebuttal and sans a certain character! Fantastic!
There’s an entire novel that did it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
Several. Later Georges Perec also did
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
Which is a book about a world in which the letter "E" has disappeared and only one guy notices it. He tries to prove it, but of course all works of literature have been "rewritten" by reality to no longer include E. For example, Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven, is now A Blackbird - which the author includes in full, keeping the original meter and plot.
I heard about this when I was in my twenties, forgot the details, and purchased The Great Gatsby instead.
I thought I was missing something for the longest time. I guess I was.
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I just did it.
You thought you did somthing thr didnt you? Wll sorry to burst your bubbl but numrous sentnces could b constructd without mploying th first ltter of the Nglish lxicon.
sentnces
They snuck right past you
I left one in there as an exercise for the reader. I also didn't change the letter position from first to fifth :D
It’s not too difficult to avoid using it.
Wasn't there a novel written in the 1880s that did not include the letter E? The most commonly used letter in the English language. The story in the novel was unremarkable save for the fact that... yeah, there are no Es.
That’s cool as a technical exercise.
And it was. It wasn't noticed much when it first came out, but some decades later it blew up when people realised how cool it was.
Restaurant Review... no wait
Eatery Evaluation....no...
Food Box, Go or No Go? By Homer.. Bill Simpson.
In what sense is it the first letter of the English lexicon? Lexicon ≠ alphabet
In the sense that Alphabet has an 'a' in it.
Yeah, but it isn't impressive avoiding a letter if you can use any word you want, and it doesnt matter what it means. "Without employing the second most frequent letter of English." would make sense or "the vowel which is commonly listed first" or some sort of thing. I suspect they just didn't know what lexicon meant and thought it sounded smart.
I think the description "first letter" is easily understood if you remember what a lexicon used to look like.
Ahh, I didn't know that Americans* called dictionaries 'lexicons'. In most forms of English I've heard, and in the field of linguistics, 'lexicon' is the complete set of vocabulary in a language, or subject. A dictionary is an alphabetical list of a lexicon, often with definitions.
*I'm presuming it's Americans because mirriam webster lists the dictionary definition first, while OED and Cambridge only list that as archaic usage.
Well I'm neither English or American, but to me the word lexicon means encyclopedia. It's still alphabetical.
It also means a person's personal vocabulary... Aka a personal dictionary.
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Could still be shorter, "So?"
O!
Oi mum, where's Grond?
Grond
"I win the bet"
the difference between Virginia and Philadelphia has never been so succinctly summarized
On Reddit there was a subreddit where you couldn't use the letter E, r/AVoid5 iirc
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Oh I could, with simplicity.
你用英语因为你只懂英语。
我不肯用英语因为我不肯给你懂。
我们不同。
(Prompt didn't specify which linguistic-type to use. P.S. used pinyin without the first letter of the 字母)
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