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Jocelyn<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Thales_Curiosities" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Thales_Curiosities</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tao</span></a></span> </p><p>Not just maths… The text of <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/RaymondQueneau" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RaymondQueneau</span></a>'s 1947 "Exercices de style" (translated as Exercises in Style), which showcases different writing constraints among which the <a href="https://mastodon.gougere.fr/tags/lipogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lipogram</span></a> (text avoiding strictly the usage of one or more letters of the alphabet) …has an *e* right in the middle of its lipogram in e.</p><p>So, should the English translation have one too? Is there an implied warranty that a text that claims to be a lipogram is one? Of course, we expect that a (...)</p>
Matthew Muñoz :bon:<p>Shelley’s Ozymandias with no “e”.</p><p>(A Void by Georges Perec trans. Gilbert Adair.)</p><p><a href="https://m.knucklebones.rip/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://m.knucklebones.rip/tags/sonnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sonnet</span></a> <a href="https://m.knucklebones.rip/tags/lipogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lipogram</span></a></p>
Blake Eskin<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://saturation.social/@irwin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>irwin</span></a></span> fails the <a href="https://saturation.social/tags/lipogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lipogram</span></a> test 👎 <a href="https://saturation.social/tags/oulipo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>oulipo</span></a> <a href="https://saturation.social/tags/chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chatbots</span></a></p>
Matthew Muñoz<p>This sonnet brought to you by the letter E</p><p><a href="https://vis.social/tags/univocal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>univocal</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/sonnet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sonnet</span></a><br><a href="https://vis.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://vis.social/tags/poem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poem</span></a><br><a href="https://vis.social/tags/lipogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lipogram</span></a><br><a href="https://vis.social/tags/versethursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>versethursday</span></a></p>
Sasha Dumas (dab)<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://oulipo.social/@rjl20" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rjl20</span></a></span> Don't b sad that that awful glyph had slipp'd thru, d'you know that RaymondQ (not <span class="h-card"><a href="https://oulipo.social/@RaymondQ" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>RaymondQ</span></a></span>, but a grand inspirator) has such a glyph right in midst of his <a href="https://oulipo.social/tags/lipogram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lipogram</span></a> in his "Stylistic Drill"? I wouldn't think that, but it's a fact!</p>
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