Me Need Help! ( A Spelling Thread)

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Can you construct a complete sentence using only one vowel? I see one everyday on the subway:

Do Not Hold Doors!

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Extra points given for longer sentences and more difficult vowels obviously.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

This has what to do with spelling (noun)?

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Why try rhythm?

― Michael White (Hereward), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

(oh shit, i misread this as "construct a complete sentence using only one VERB)
I is dim.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this is killing him.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

there have been entire books written without the letter 'e,' so I imagine so, yes.

― LORD OF ALL THINGS HOMOELECTRONIC (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I think this is killing him.

Isn't it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Eve elected elder lecterns.

― Huk-L, Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes. I, George Perec, also wrote a shorter piece using only the letter E. If either of these volumes were read as much as they're mentioned, my estate would be much more profitable.

― George "Nabisco" Perec (nabisco), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

(I don't mean can ONE do it, trigonalmayhem, but can YOU do it?)

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I've read both! The one with no vowels but E is, in an English translation by Gilbert Adair, called The Exeter Text. It's a few dozen pages long, as I recall, and available as a back-up story in some versions of A Void (the novel without using E).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes, but I'm not that bored right now.

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Ben spent ten cents when he entered the tenement.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I bit him in his sixth rib, bitch.

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 13 January 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Bud, struck dumb, puts gum (junk but yum) up Nun's cut cunt fur, unfurls muck.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost:
Was that what Mara saw that day?

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, a little better:

Bud, struck dumb, fucks up: puts gum (junk but yum) up Nun's cut cunt fur, must unfurl muck.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

well done!
xpost:
That was Lana's last straw.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Let me try again:

That was Lana's last straw: Santa, that fat bastard!

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What is wrong with the world today can be entirely summarized in that the guy who translated a work with no E's into a another language but still with no E's gets like probably no groupies.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't it Gilbert Adair? I'll bet he gets one or two at least.

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Bud, struck dumb, fucks up: puts gum (junk but yum) up Nun's cut cunt fur, must unfurl muck

This sentence reads so weirdly that I expect it to be a palindrome.

― martin m. (mushrush), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

But Bud totally got his Bubblicious all up in that nun's pubes! What a mess!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I was able to read it with no problem and was pretty impressed. Jaymc is way in the lead right now.

What is wrong with the world today
But wasn't there a song about this from the groupie's point of view?

Don't you remember you told me: I bit him in his sixth rib, bitch.
Said: That was Lana's last straw- Santa, that fat bastard!
Baby, baby, baby, baby, ah-baby

― Ken L (Ken L), Thursday, 13 January 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Ana saw that Sarah had Dad's tall hat, and was sad.

― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 14 January 2005 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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