For English, not using “e” seems like the real challenge.
Two types
Submitted 2 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com to memes@sopuli.xyz
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ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Klear@quokk.au 2 months ago
Fuck you.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Ah, classic rebuttal and sans a certain character! Fantastic!
otacon239@lemmy.world 2 months ago
There’s an entire novel that did it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Several. Later Georges Perec also did
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.
toynbee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 months ago
Ahh that’s the one. For some reason I thought it was from the 1880s…
EtherWhack@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I just did it.
_stranger_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 2 months ago
sentnces
They snuck right past you
oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
It’s not too difficult to avoid using it.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 months ago
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.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s cool as a technical exercise.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 months ago
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.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Restaurant Review… no wait
Eatery Evaluation…no…
Food Box, Go or No Go? By Homer… Bill Simpson.
Acamon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In what sense is it the first letter of the English lexicon? Lexicon ≠ alphabet
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
In the sense that Alphabet has an ‘a’ in it.
Acamon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
Tuuktuuk@piefed.ee 2 months ago
If you list all English words in an order, a preferably standard/prototypical kind of order, what will be the first word on the list?
I’d say that if nothing else is specified, then the most correct choice of putting the words in an order is ti put them in alphabetical order.
If there is “the first one of all English words”, then it’s actually a bit difficult finding a definition for that where the first one would be something else than “a”.
birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Could still be shorter, “Nope.”
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Thomas Jefferson: Intelligence.
Benjamin Franklin: Genius.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
[deleted]aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m going to assume you’re serious…
You’re describing the relationship between Nicola Tesla (inventor, genius) and Thomas Edison (business man, scumbag).
Benjamin Franklin (pictured right) is the guy who proved the existence of electricity. He is better known for inventing the printing press and bifocals.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 months ago
The former; the person you’re thinking of, as the latter, is Thomas Edison.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“I win the bet”
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
the difference between Virginia and Philadelphia has never been so succinctly summarized
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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)
konalt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
On Reddit there was a subreddit where you couldn’t use the letter E, r/AVoid5 iirc
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Throwback to rddit mold mayhaps?
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Might’ve been better paired with Adams. If I’m remembering correctly, when they were going to France, Adams tried to learn the language with rote memorization and conjugation tables and whatnot. Franklin apparently just made up “French-sounding” words.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Mastodon instance where you can’t post the letter “e”: oulipo.social/public/local 🙃
Foxfire@pawb.social 2 months ago
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.
Thassodar@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Did you… Did you do the thing there? There’s no e
(☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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…