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#148994 10/17/05 12:56 PM
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I was amazed to see that today's word was lipogram. Last week I was in Paris and was invited to a friend's for dinner. One of the other people at the dinner party was the person who translated La Disparition into Russian! What an achievement. And he is writing his doctoral thesis on literature with imposed constraints. He also said that there are actually 3 translations of La Disparition into English. It would be interesting to compare them. Maybe someone will rise to the challenge of translating it into Linear B!
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Allo Ellen,

Do you know the name of the three English translations? Anu gave but one.

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Re; the comment about writing the words for numbers without the vowel A, and getting up to one thousand before needing to use an A - what happens about writing the words "one hundred and one"? Does this not count as using the A?

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welcome Ellen and Pat!

I think it's supposed to be written "one hundred one"? like counting seconds.


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One hundred one, one hundred two, one hundred three...one twenty-five, one twenty-six, and so on

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One oh one, one oh two, one oh three...one twenty-five, one twenty-six, and so on.

Hi Pat...this is the way I usually count above one hundred. Granted, this may be a learned, or self-taught, way of counting since my first sales job involved counting stock inventory in drug stores every day, so counting quickly came with the territory*, but it is an way of counting without the "and" that can be easily understood.


* just like counting in cases became second nature. My products we packed in cases of 12, so it was much easier to count 2,4,6,8,10 ONE, 2,4,6,8,10 TW0, 2,4,6,8,10 THREE, 2,4,6,8,10 FIVE, and so on.

Believe it or not, it's a lot easier to get the count right when you portion into small categories/numbers.

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Ooo, sorry, my post came in at same time as you ETA. Didn't mean to repeat.

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oh, Bel, I'm so deeply offended...


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Awwww, pauvre chou. Come, we'll sit, we'll chat, we'll make it all better. Kiss-kiss.

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A fine meta-lipogram (a work about lipograms?) is "Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn.

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If my brain is working right...I'm thinking of a group of posts from many months ago, all lacking a (or a bunch of) particular individual symbol(s) - this sound familiar to anybody? (I know, I could look it up, but I'm too busy/lazy.)

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