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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 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 a…
So just lav out the "e"? The human brain would b prfctly capabl of undrstanding it.
* No problm I'll writ lik this.
No. Stop. Don't do this.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Missing third individual that both must grasp to carry on."
But you still don't instill that actual individual in minds, and an actual, non-abstract, particular individual is occasionally crucial to a thought. Without that word you would basically go back to that activity in which pairs of folks try to find out a thing without using words. This is a bit of an auto-proof as I can't say its word. It's not as if you can simply work around and pick similar words for that individu…
We're working with an arbitrary constraint here (and I, for one, am enjoying it, actually); we kind of /have/ to do that. ;)
> you miss almost all of a thought by dancing around it vs. using a fast shortcut that quickly aligns thoughts with low odds of ambiguity.
You seem to forget that we're trying to find clever ways to refer to people and things without using the most common letter in the English language.
It seems to me that Vice casually mentioning Mastodon suggests something about a level of achieved status as a communication platform.
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 a…
How would you talk about an unfamiliar individual known by a noun you can't say?
It's limiting in a big way. Occasionally, you can say a string of words without that symbol that flows without worry, but an individual word trips you up and brings much difficulty, as any of its obvious synonyms all contain that symbol too.
Imo such would warrant a distinct class of "non-format" strings, just for that noun class; that you might talk about it as-is without violation?
Or for purists... commonalization of a particular 'magic' shorthand, such as 'xqx', that is uncommon in that noun class thus can act as a quick shorthand. Though such has additional 'logic' to say initially, it and similar shorthands form a basis for a community 'pidgin' within constraints.
Also, I am now full of irk. Continually colliding with taboo words containing (un)said symbol. Ugh. (WHY MUST SO MANY WORDS FINISH WITH TABOO GLYPH?!)
How would you talk about an unfamiliar individual known by a noun you can't say?
An guy my in-laws know can do this as a party trick. Just talk on and on without using that char.
Simply a function of your... uh, surplus chronological units.