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#149004 10/18/05 12:56 AM
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Sounds familiar to me, too, but I, too, am lazy
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Only thing I find so far is this
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=wordplay&Number=127749
with additional posts most probably archival

#149006 10/18/05 02:11 PM
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One of the earliest lipogrammatical works I know of was written by Lucius Septimius Nestor. It was a retelling of the Iliad wherein the first book lacked an alpha, the second a beta, and so on through the alphabet. Unfortunately, it is lost, along with the tiny Iliad in a nutshell mentioned by Pliny.


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#149007 10/18/05 04:49 PM
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here is the lipogrammatic thread which was executed(!) here.

In looking for this I discovered that internal links from the old board no longer work. (d'oh!) I'd wager that this bug doesn't get fixed anytime soon..

edit - one of our irregulars wrote a *scathing review of Ella Minnow Pea (yCliu). although it is by no means heavyweight literature, it's not all that bad. lipogrammatically speaking.

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#149008 10/19/05 02:17 AM
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That's it! You got it ! I was sartin it could be found. Yup, it ran in Spring 2001 and was "born again" in March 2004.

Y'all all did a lot of good thinking -- such lipogram-rich days !

#149009 10/20/05 11:31 AM
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Looks like we'll be testing the 98 posts to a thread on the new board. See if it does the same here as it did there. Or maybe someone will start a new thread? That was a fun thread.

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Quote:

Looks like we'll be testing the 98 posts to a thread on the new board. See if it does the same here as it did there. Or maybe someone will start a new thread? That was a fun thread.




I think the proof is in the pudding. there were two main reasons for the 98-post sanction; to wit:

a) slow-loading for users with dial-up connections -- on the old board you had to wait for page 1 to load before you could get to page 2. does this still apply for some of you?

b) the long-term factor; after some unknown period of time the boards aging process gave subsequent pages the wanderlust. that is, instead of the page 2 you wanted you would instead link into some other thread! maybe this has been OBE; maybe not. (I think I'll try to find one of those threads in the archives..)

edit: come to think of it, that thread, which I linked to above and is now active again, should qualify--it dates back to 2001.

re-edit: but then again, all of the page 2 posts are new...

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#149011 10/21/05 03:03 AM
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welcome Ellen and Pat!

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




I think it's a transpond issue. One side favours including 'and' (one hundred and one etc.), the other side favors the version without 'and'.


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Oh, my! So many lipogram posts, so little hours! [ -e]

Welcome, Ellen. What letter did the Russian translator leave out?

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I think it's a transpond issue. One side favours including 'and' (one hundred and one etc.), the other side favors the version without 'and'.
Here, Bingley: let's say I write you a check for one hundred and one dollars; you wouldn't get the money. (Assuming, of course, that the bank employee who processes it is not asleep on the job.)

Edit: deleted something ugly; no need to contaminate the board with my personal anger.

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