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Translation of posting without using 'E': It's Similar to That Bird Social App, But Without a Fifth Symbol Mastodon has an app with particular quirks and many
by biot 9y ago
Translation of posting without using 'E':
It's Similar to That Bird Social App, But Without a Fifth Symbol
Mastodon has an app with particular quirks and many humans find it joyful.
Mastodon boffins did it again.
A particular boffin going by initials M.R. works as a digital craftsman at a corporation with initials I.A. (that has http archival capability), did craft a social app oulipo.social with an odd quirk: said app disallows applying of fifth anglo-saxon linguistic symbol or "any variant of it".
Said individual found motivation via book "A Void" by author G.P. This lipogrammatic book did apply all anglo-saxon linguistic symbols but that particular symbol. It follows a Francophonic philosophy of Oulipo, a constraint form of writing that is a combination of both math and book study.
Banning of this symbol is Oulipo's most famous limitation: "It limits writing without making it too hard," M.R. said. "You can still sound natural and say what you want to say, though you may think on it a bit in a way that you wouldn't without constraints." Such limitation can push you to think hard and apply imagination about words, M.R. said.
M.R. had no anticipation that oulipo.social would attain popularity — as it got its start as a trial of skills application of Ruby on Rails and to attain a sharp mind in OS capability — but said app did gain many additional accounts (singular digit with two nought digits) within about six days of starting.
"It's a joy to watch folks do things I wouldn't think of—#drilipo, and applying oulipo constraints to famous writing and songs—and just chat about day to day stuff," M.R. said. "It's also gratifying that folks will look at oulipo.social and go on to think up constraints or gimmicks for additional variant Mastodons."
M.R. did post back to my communication within an hour, with almost 300 words and without said taboo symbol. I suck at thinking by using my imagination to avoid said symbol and quit not long post-starting as my mind is frail.
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- pacaro 9y agoRhymes with quay
- nebabyte 9y agoWhat, gay? (I wasn't going to, but skimming his words, I can't spot what this is a followup to; so I thought I'd ask, though with that initial jocular quip.)
- pacaro 9y agoWhile "rhyme" unfortunately contains the letter "e", although not the sound; "quay" doesn't contain it, but does have the sound (it's pronounced "key") I couldn't think of another word that rhymes with e but doesn't contain it. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quay https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quay
- tastythrowaway2 9y agophi?
- rspeer 9y agoNot the way you learn to pronounce it in math.
- Symbiote 9y agoThese will be useful for your next game of Scrabble. Ki, the plant Cordyline fruticosa from the Pacific islands and China, this word coming from Hawaiian. Chi or qi, the life force in Chinese philosophy. Li, a Chinese mile. Mi and ti, represents the third and seventh notes of a major scale. ... maybe more, I've just found a page on Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/i%CB%90#One_syllable https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:English/i%CB%90#One_sy... (Fi, ghi, gi, shchi, ski (!) and maybe Twi.)
- legostormtroopr 9y agoPray tell, fifth Symbol of what? Did you try to put words to say "fifth symbol of an Anglo-variant of latin-script".
- evanb 9y ago'Pray tell' has an 'e'.
- legostormtroopr 9y agoDang, you are right.
- tempodox 9y agoIt's about using only 4 of the 5 vocals (of Latin script). But “five” contains an “e”.
- bandushrew 9y agothats genuinely impressive...
- koytch 9y agoI'd go for "apply'd", "craft'd" and so on -- it has a vibrant applicant-of-sharp-tools-ian ring to it. Admirations for your honour's worthy labour.