I do not support just calling that wiki “wiki” without including a crucial part of it.

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      Did you just ruin it to tldr an info that’s just a Bing away?

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          You mean the engine owned by the guy who refuses to abide to the GDPR, thinks anti-suicide messages would be bias, wants to use AI to “remove bias from news articles” (and from reviews)? https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html goes into it, it’s a whole mess.

          Right now all search engines suck, unfortunately.

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            I will boosty all sayings in this post that persist in our plight and do l’contrary for individuals who don’t. Ciao

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            Wut? My office was not notified of this. Launching an nvestigation. Thanks for at least explaining the down vote.

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              What is this discussion? Did y’all not grasp what was going on with that first Bing talk? I was just trying to stop you guys and gals using that symbol willy nilly; nobody’s actually apologizing for Bing

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                I honestly don’t know anymore dude. People are getting super down vote happy, and I don’t know why. In another thread, I said that you shouldn’t encourage people to have eating disorders, and it got downvoted, so I don’t know.

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          I was not. My point was just that this post has a sort of linguistic playing going on that that first tldr didn’t follow, but you didn’t also so… I don’t know why I try. I just found it fun.

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      May I submit a formulation akin to “I got what you did thusly”?

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      You don’t say? But you said it. Why, you don’t find it - approaching mortality for saying it, as in A Void - intimidating? I admit though, not using it is limiting. A book writ without that symbol… Wow. But I must stop now, I can’t think of any words without it.

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    A Void’s plot follows a group of individuals looking for a missing companion, Anton Vowl. It is in part a parody of noir and horror fiction, with many stylistic tricks, gags, plot twists, and a grim conclusion. On many occasions it implicitly talks about its own lipogrammatic limitation, highlighting its unusual syntax. A Void’s protagonists finally work out which symbol is missing, but find it a hazardous topic to discuss, as any who try to bypass this story’s constraint risk fatal injury. Philip Howard, writing a lipogrammatic appraisal of A Void in his column Lost Words, said “This is a story chock-full of plots and sub-plots, of loops within loops, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which allow its author an opportunity to display his customary virtuosity as an avant-gardist magician, acrobat and clown.”

    I also find it funny that this paragraph from OP’s link also avoids using an individual symbol. I’m also trying to do it in my post, but it’s hard to form any thought without it. I don’t think that I could draft a full book using this constraint, and notably a book that’s so cognizant of it’s own imposing limitation and of it’s protagonists habit of fourth wall smashing.

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    How surprising! I thought that symbol most popular in “La disparition”'s original localism, but this wiki says this translation’s vocabulary has a similar proportion and thus - probably - a similar difficulty.

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    My mood was spoilt by looking up this author and what folk call him. Oh, I wouldn’t want to construct a book of this kind. It hurts.

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      Oulipo is chock full of amazing linguistic training propositions isn’t it?

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    How about “most famous and trustworthy virtual information vault”? Or is that too much?

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      That’s an intriguing way to look at it. I can’t find an origin for that quotation, though. Would you kindly link it?

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        It was literally in the wiki you linked to lol. Though I was mistaken, it wasn’t Howard Philip Lovecraft, but “Philip Howard.”

        Philip Howard, writing a lipogrammatic appraisal of A Void in his column Lost Words, said “This is a story chock-full of plots and sub-plots, of loops within loops, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which allow its author an opportunity to display his customary virtuosity as an avant-gardist magician, acrobat and clown.”