Talk:Lipogram

message: I added links to versions of Pilgrim's Progress and Robinson Crusoe "in words of one syllable" as being of interest perhaps. Is there a name for this form? Is there a better place to put them? 88888  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88888 (talk • contribs) 17:46, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Monosyllablic reductions

message: Regarding: "A Spanish translation instead omits the letter A, the most common letter in that language. "  Oh?  Not according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency#cite_note-0  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.170.62.95 (talk) 15:01, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spanish

message: Another amusing example of an English lipogram would be in the English translation of the Polish writer Stanilav Lem's short story collection titled The Cyberiad. In one of the stories the robot "constructor" Trurl builds a machine to automatically write poetry, an "Electronic Bard". His friend and rival Klapacius, trying to discredit Trurl's accomplishment, gives the machine an over-the-top difficult assignment, "a poem about a haircut! But lofty, nobel, tragic, timeless, full of love, treachery, retribution, quiet heroism in the face of certain doom! Six lines, cleverly rhymed, and every word beginning with the letter "s"!"
:The machine shames Klaupacius with a perfect answer:
:Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
:She scissored short. Sorely shorn,
:Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
:Silently scheming,
:Sightlessly seeking
:Some savage, spectacular suicide.
12.54.94.26 (talk) 21:15, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's not really a lipogram (it omits certain letters, true, but the point is the use of S, not the omission of any particular letters). - dcljr (talk) 08:30, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed; that poem is an example of constrained writing, but not a lipogram. Klbrain (talk) 11:27, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: The Cyberiad

message: In the Mary Had a Little Lamb example, are the headings Original, Without "S":, etc., part of the original poem (i.e., a single seven-stanza poem containing those headings within it) or were they added merely for reference by a WP editor? I ask because I have converted all (other) single-letter references in the article from quotes ("E", "T", …) to italics (E, T, …), but I didn't do that to the Mary example because I wasnt sure if the headers were part of Eckler's original text. - dcljr (talk) 08:24, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mary Had a Little Lamb 

message: I wonder if Edgar Allan Poe's minor tale "X-ing a Paragrab" deserves mention here. -- Naaman Brown (talk) 15:30, 25 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  x 

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replies: text: This is the link to the table of contents for the issue that contained Mary had a Lipogram and the journal's copyright can be seen within as well: Word Ways vol 2 issue 3. Wugapodes [thɑk] [ˈkan.ˌʧɹɪbz] 03:13, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: I am not agree with the given history on wikipedia in the reference of Lipogram. This can't be true without an available scripture. Amitreenujain (talk) 04:40, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: ￼we have the true history of Lipogram. We can give if wikipedia like. Amitreenujain (talk) 04:42, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lipogram 

message: No suitable example is given on wikipedia in the reference of Lipogram by which anybody could understand this betterly. Amitreenujain (talk) 06:18, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lipogram  

message: A young man named Chibuzor Victor Obih published a 
lipogram novel titled 'Lost In the Forest of November: A book without the letter A'. The book can be found on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Forest-November-Chibuzor-Victor-ebook/dp/B0C3ZJW1GZ Akoeyo (talk) 02:08, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lipogram of letter A