Lipogram Madness!
I have a new game. It's called a lipogram. You write as many words as you want, except you intentionally leave out one letter of the alphabet! You could use X, but it' much more challenging to leave out a vowel.
Here's one I wrote without using the letter a:
NOTE: Use the CtrlF feature and you can skip from this a:
This is the story of the Loch Ness monster, Nessie. The monster is extremely huge. It doesn't resemble Big Foot one bit, for it doesn't possess legs. Nessie possess big teeth which close very quickly if needed. King Kong couldn't even hope to win when opposed by Nessie while fighting. Nessie would chomp on his legs, killing him. Nessie wouldn't fit between two medium-size boxes very well; she is much too big to fit. You should never look Nessie right in the eye, or else she will kill you. Visitors of the Loch know her loud yell well. The residents of the Loch never get enough sleep due to this huge monster. It keeps them up for the entire night. Why those people choose to continue to live there is unknown. Nessie is expected to rule the world by 2030.
To this a.
I wrote this during History >=).
Have fun!
Here's one I wrote without using the letter a:
NOTE: Use the CtrlF feature and you can skip from this a:
This is the story of the Loch Ness monster, Nessie. The monster is extremely huge. It doesn't resemble Big Foot one bit, for it doesn't possess legs. Nessie possess big teeth which close very quickly if needed. King Kong couldn't even hope to win when opposed by Nessie while fighting. Nessie would chomp on his legs, killing him. Nessie wouldn't fit between two medium-size boxes very well; she is much too big to fit. You should never look Nessie right in the eye, or else she will kill you. Visitors of the Loch know her loud yell well. The residents of the Loch never get enough sleep due to this huge monster. It keeps them up for the entire night. Why those people choose to continue to live there is unknown. Nessie is expected to rule the world by 2030.
To this a.
I wrote this during History >=).
Have fun!
Comments
Now, I would never have enough faith in myself to try and write one of those lipograms... plus I'm way too lazy to attempt it. They look like they'd be crazy to create though!
Gah! Sorry, Stef, but since I'm studying english history, this really winds me up. Shakespeare and the language people often assume is Old English is in fact modern English, only with a different Dialect. This is old English: "Hwæt! w? G?r-Dena in ge?r-dagum" And this is Middle English: "Whan that the Knyght had thus his tale ytoold, In al the route nas ther yong ne oold" etc.
Btw:
Do you know which letter I dislike? It's not in here, but I don't like it, so I'm not using it. Guess which it is, if you wish!
i'm gonna f****g get u guys banned!!!!!!!
Am I doing it right yet?
But I don't know if Shakespearean English would be a different dialect, would it? Isn't it just Early Modern English? I guess you could call it a dialect, just a dialect that is specific to a time period instead of a geographical location or culture...
Oh, and one more thing.. the Middle English was Canterbury Tales right after the Knight's Tale, if I'm not mistaken. What was the Old English from?
We should totally start a thread for Middle English conversations. Mwahaha.
The characters that show up as ?'s are just e, a and a respectively but with stress lines above them. It's also a line from Beowulf. How about the second line? "þeod-cyninga, þrym gefrunon,"
And I base the term dialect on the fact that there wasn't a totally unified English at the time, different parts of England had different kinds of English, and some still used Cornish and such, so certain bits Shakespeare used changed when England adopted a general single dialect.
Finally, that line is the first one from The Miller's Prologue (Best Canterbury Tale, IMHO).
For this not in the know, have some translations:
First one: "What! We Gar-Danes in yore-days,"
Second one: "Thus, when the Knight had told his tale, Neither the young nor the old of their troupe,"
It seems like you know more about the actual Old and Middle English than me though... I'm just a lowly Lit major. Oh well. My praise for delving into a really cool section of human knowledge.
No letter I
Gyrl, you gotta let my penys be all yn thou. Tis good and shyt. We'd be chyllyng yn the pul, suppyng wyth Crystal, and we'd be havyng a ball. (Crystal be a freak that lyv down the skreet). My wallet be fat, and stuffed wyth meats for yo ass. You wanna holla, yu kan fynd me at the pul.
ooh, so close.
http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/05/galts_provocati.html
I feel so much closer to both of you, now. I also think the Miller's tale is the best.
I will say this, you've not experienced Chaucer until you've seen the play version adapted by Mike Poulton. If you ever have a chance go see it.
I also love playing stuff like this and telling people it's English. It confuses them immensely. (Also the funniest bit in the poem too)
LOL! "Hairy ass!" I forgot about that. Middle English isn't too hard to understand. It's like listening to a German accent.
May I say this list might assist in using odd glyphs from locations not at that spot of history and cartography around which you find you stay. It is, without doubt, a trial to omit that fifth non-uncial and to scrawl out a paragraph without sounding all haughty-taughty, by golly.
Nope, no 'e' here.
(Unless URLs count.)
Ugh.
Seriously, though, the discourse on Old and Middle English in this topic is the kind of stuff that's most awesome about The Orange Belt. Keep it up, ladies and gents.