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Man-of-many-rabes t1_j922qnc wrote

Reply to comment by TheFirstSophian in TIL about lipograms: written work in which a particular letter is intentionally omitted. Ernest Wright wrote his 1939 novel Gadsby without the letter "e," and his book was 50,000 words long. by class-in-a-glass

Hey there’s no E in your comment !!

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TheFirstSophian t1_j92aa7m wrote

And that was only 18 words. What a pain in the ass writing that book must have been.

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notthephonz t1_j94a0oe wrote

Hm, I’m surprised there isn’t a bot that shows up when someone writes a comment without using a certain letter, like the bot which is summoned when all the words are in alphabetical order.

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