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I'd add that I avoid yard work at all costs, primarily through not owning grounds of my own. My baby and I and my baby's mom just pay a monthly amount to our landlord, and that nasty yard work is his duty! Raking things that fall from limbs of big plants is a particularly unhappy duty that I unfondly think about from my childhood. And I don't want to think about mowing lawns! What a bad job that is!
It is difficult to avoid that symbol that is just right of "w". I must look into that lipogrammatic book by thX man from that country by Spain. What a task to craft a full book of this!
PS. I now am a "man on a long trip" and not a "unfamiliar individual" to this board! Huzzah for Flatlandah (local pronunication)!
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RAH Flatlandah ! So good to find anotha' Northana who knows how to tahk right.
Spaaht-orb is local pronunciashun koshah?
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From Ol' Scribbluh (Is "ScribblUh" fair? If not, omit it! Also "Ol'")
Spaaht-orb is #%^#% koshah?
All is OK in ardor and conflict with arms; only a taboo symbol must you avoid - by what tool is of your own choosing.
Only, Flatlandah has mistook his task, and so did post a taboo symbol. Oops! Mayhaps Flats will favor us with a transformation of "Blink, Blink, Small Star."
And wow, you too did stray. How about a translation of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"?
Avoiding taboos is an utmost trial!
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Flats is sorry, in truth. A dastardly typo and I must craft a difficult translation. In original lingo, "Blink Blink" has a multiplicity of parts, so I transform only half-six parts for your approval, Ms. Spartorb, thus:
Blink, blink, small star
What, in fact, is your form?
Up atop our world so high
As a diamond in that sky
As blazing sun from sight did go
As soon as sun's rays do not glow
At that point you show your small light
Blink, blink, all of that night
Blink, blink, small star
What, in fact, is your form?
At that point a pilgrim in that dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark
His way would not loom into sight
If you did not blink just right
Blink, blink, small star
What, in fact, is your form?
I could not put similar sounding words as a tail to all portions of my translation, but I was striving for it. Art thou up to your task, wow?
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Good work, Inhabitant of Disc World; lack of that which would normally distinguish this art form is put back by rythm and scansion that is good. Congratulations
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Oh Flats! What a wondrous translation! You did a good job, and artful too. But a solitary stanza would satisfy my bidding, and you did many. A big kiss to you, Flats.
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I thank you, Buck-tan for your acclaim (and I blush at your osculation  ). A similar kiss to you for thinking up this sport! This lipogrammatic communication is difficult but fun. Following a span of crafting posts without that-which-I-cannot-say, as I look at posts out of this string, I look at that taboo symbol as if it was in crimson! Do any AWAD individuals know "La Disparition" (that lipogrammatic book)? I think its translation is "A Void" by a Mr. Adair. I think that in its original francais it is not obvious that it contains no taboo symbols, but I do not know that country's lingo to say on my own. What is yard work's worst task, according to you all?
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What is yard work's worst task, according to you all?
Raking grass that hasn't had mowing for a month.
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Uprooting plants that grow wild– and so spoil my plan. Broad fauna among grassy swaths –in all forms–or just as bad, doing it again- in ground dug up, (and down) to form artist displays of un common flora. I opt for flora that displays color, form and aroma with contrasting traits
uprooting common wild things with that grow long tap roots and do willfully spoil my stabs at form is most difficult
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Truth, of troy. Pulling up tooth-of-lion blossom is odious. And so many, many such stand proudly in my yard. I told my son (who is amid two and four) to pick as many as my son might want, and I did hand two blossoms to him, but my son did anguish and put both blossoms back among grass with much thought and caution. So much for that plan.
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