Since Elon Musk became Twitter’s CEO, he’s been pushing through a lot of changes to the social network. But perhaps…

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    1 year ago

    Cool, can’t wait until they ban the use of the letter ‘e’ for non-verified users and wii all hav to wrayt layk this

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      1 year ago

      Avoiding the letter E is already a creative writing style, except you don’t hav to wrayt layk this. There’s even a Mastodon instance dedicated to it and a funny writeup about what happened when they came across another mastodon instance where the letter E is the only allowed letter.


      Or in Oulipo:

      Avoiding that orthographic symbol is a standing approach to writing, but you don’t hav to wrayt layk this. Also, a Mastodon community for it was built. I found out through a blog post about a showdown of that mastodon community with a community that only allows that symbol.

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        I was initially excited to hear about the Oulipo community, but they seem to have an very limited take on what Oulipo is/was. There is a lot more to Oulipo than lipograms (avoiding a character) as even the Wikipedia page says.

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            The whole point of Oulipo is “the seeking of new structures and patterns”.

            Constraints inspire creativity, so let’s come up with new constraints.

            If you only allow one structure/constraint, that’s the opposite of what Oulipo is about.

            Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
            “Oulipo Compendium” is a fun book if you can find it.
            Motte’s “Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature” is OK but a bit dry. Looks like there’ve been a couple new surveys recently too.

            The mastodon community Oulipo.social only allows one structure/constraint, so it’s not that interesting. If you know of any good Oulipo communities in the fediverse, I’d be thrilled to hear about them.