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lemmy.ml

TLDR The whole book doesn’t have the letter e so the plot in the wiki doesn’t either

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gbzmreply
lemmy.world

Did you just ruin it to tldr an info that's just a Bing away?

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Sekoiareply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

You mean the engine owned by the guy who refuses to abide to the GDPR, thinks anti-suicide messages would be bias, wants to use AI to "remove bias from news articles" (and from reviews)? https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html goes into it, it's a whole mess.

Right now all search engines suck, unfortunately.

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Aatubereply
kbin.melroy.org

I will boosty all sayings in this post that persist in our plight and do l'contrary for individuals who don't. Ciao

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lemmy.world

Wut? My office was not notified of this. Launching an nvestigation. Thanks for at least explaining the down vote.

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gbzmreply
lemmy.world

What is this discussion? Did y'all not grasp what was going on with that first Bing talk? I was just trying to stop you guys and gals using that symbol willy nilly; nobody's actually apologizing for Bing

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I honestly don't know anymore dude. People are getting super down vote happy, and I don't know why. In another thread, I said that you shouldn't encourage people to have eating disorders, and it got downvoted, so I don't know.

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gbzmreply
lemmy.world

I was not. My point was just that this post has a sort of linguistic playing going on that that first tldr didn't follow, but you didn't also so... I don't know why I try. I just found it fun.

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Wait, what's wrong with that char? It's just a normal char, why can't I post it?

Variation: unwittingly posted said char

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May I submit a formulation akin to "I got what you did thusly"?

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A Void's plot follows a group of individuals looking for a missing companion, Anton Vowl. It is in part a parody of noir and horror fiction, with many stylistic tricks, gags, plot twists, and a grim conclusion. On many occasions it implicitly talks about its own lipogrammatic limitation, highlighting its unusual syntax. A Void's protagonists finally work out which symbol is missing, but find it a hazardous topic to discuss, as any who try to bypass this story's constraint risk fatal injury. Philip Howard, writing a lipogrammatic appraisal of A Void in his column Lost Words, said "This is a story chock-full of plots and sub-plots, of loops within loops, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which allow its author an opportunity to display his customary virtuosity as an avant-gardist magician, acrobat and clown."

I also find it funny that this paragraph from OP's link also avoids using an individual symbol. I'm also trying to do it in my post, but it's hard to form any thought without it. I don't think that I could draft a full book using this constraint, and notably a book that's so cognizant of it's own imposing limitation and of it's protagonists habit of fourth wall smashing.

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How surprising! I thought that symbol most popular in "La disparition"'s original localism, but this wiki says this translation's vocabulary has a similar proportion and thus - probably - a similar difficulty.

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lemmy.world

My mood was spoilt by looking up this author and what folk call him. Oh, I wouldn't want to construct a book of this kind. It hurts.

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sh.itjust.works

Apparently I can only make you mod if you comment in the community, so please make a post there with a comment in it, and I'll add you Cheers

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Could you add "Always post prior to your parting", a 195-ish policy, to the words about the purpose of the community? And probably that "Posts and subposts may contain The"? don't think I may modify anything from non-mbin hosts.

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fedia.io

It's a running gag that avoids using a glyph (fifth), which a plurality of us want to copy. But, you could possibly know this.

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lemmy.world

Fascinating! I may find looking at this book in my todo list.

(This is hard!)

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Oulipo is chock full of amazing linguistic training propositions isn't it?

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How about "most famous and trustworthy virtual information vault"? Or is that too much?

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Aatubereply
kbin.melroy.org

That's an intriguing way to look at it. I can't find an origin for that quotation, though. Would you kindly link it?

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It was literally in the wiki you linked to lol. Though I was mistaken, it wasn't Howard Philip Lovecraft, but "Philip Howard."

Philip Howard, writing a lipogrammatic appraisal of A Void in his column Lost Words, said "This is a story chock-full of plots and sub-plots, of loops within loops, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which allow its author an opportunity to display his customary virtuosity as an avant-gardist magician, acrobat and clown."

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