How would you talk about an unfamiliar individual known by a noun you can't say?
Don't say. Point.
Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
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Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
this kind of broad situation is hard to fix; usually a particular thought has a particular solution. Similarly, using a synonym lookup may hold you back. Look at what you want to say, not what individual words you'd pick without any constraints.
But a mutual thought of a non-abstract individual aids in a lot of situations.
Most difficult is accounting for, and introducing into a chat, folks wholly unknown to anybody you talk to.
A trick is to try to say how you know of such folks, finding a path or paths along which you can form a link, such as "my dad's mom's son" or "my pal's husband's pal" or "a woman who knows my boss from an old job" or "I know of a particular lady's writings from a class I had at school".
This social platform's author own account within said platform shows an additional gimmick or option, viz., translation, insofar as you'd normally hail said author as "[small gray animal with a tail]", but within this platform's constraints as "[said animal, only in Latin]".
This is not so hard for participants whom you call with words common to kinds of things, kinds of animals, jobs, and so on, but possibly difficult for folks lacking a commonality of naming of this sort (viz., with "nomina propria").
(Sorry if "viz." is illicit on account of what it actually stands for... you can just think of it as "in particular" if you want.)
Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
But a mutual thought of a non-abstract individual aids in a lot of situations.
Most difficult is accounting for, and introducing into a chat, folks wholly unknown to anybody you talk to. A trick is to try to say how you know of such folks, finding a path or paths along which you can form a link, such as "my dad's mom's son" or "my pal's husband's pal" or "a woman who knows my boss from an old job" or "I know of a particular lady's writings from a class I had at school". This social platform's a…
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Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
#24If we want something like Twitter, but in the form of an open source protocol, we need to name it and brand it well.
I remember when I first used Linux, I didn't "trust" it. There wasn't a singular OS called Linux and the GUI applications looked low quality because they didn't have good design or branding. To most people, the UI and branding is the product, so when they see it poorly implemented, it simply feels like a bad product.
If you make open source feel expensive and luxurious, they will come.
Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
#25Silly Vice: it's "Perec", not "Pereca".
Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
#26Rather than rejecting e it should delete your account if you happen to enter one. And announce the fact in impact font on your followers' timelines.
Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
#27This sounds like a fun gimmick, but it makes me more excited about the concept of Mastodon (GNU Social). I think this creates a really fun use case for federation. Hell I never thought of it before, but maybe now I'll want accounts on multiple servers now.
One of the constraints of GNU Social is that you shouldn't have two identical usernames on two separate instances. I did that and I don't know how to fix it.
rocky1138@kwat.chat
rocky1138@gnusocial.no
Does Mastadon suffer the same problem?
Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
#28> Reeve replied to my email in less than an hour, with nearly 300 words and no appearance of the banned character. I attempted to write this article without using the letter "e" and gave up after five minutes of weak effort.
0x7265657665 did dispatch back as to my communication in duration not in surplus of an hour with almost 300 words and without a taboo glyph in sight. Although I did try to author this column without using said taboo glyph "0x65", against apathy and sloth I could not triumph and did submit for my stab at it, as short in duration as to boil liquid in a pot, was a dud.
Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
#29How would you talk about an unfamiliar individual known by a noun you can't say?
Someone pulled my chair at the restaurant, how rude -> What a day, I'm just lunching and a random prick pulls my chair, how crazy!
Re: Like Tweeting, but You Can't Use the Letter E
#30So just lav out the "e"? The human brain would b prfctly capabl of undrstanding it.