Talk:A Void

message: Douglas Hofstadter claims in Le Ton Beau de Marot (p 121) that a single 'e' occurs in the German translation, very early on. I'd think this would be a ruinous blemish if true. Can anyone with access to the German translation confirm? I can see that possibly Hofstadter is joking, but if so, I don't see his point. 198.99.123.63 21:57, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly 'e' isn't such a common letter in German, so the author substituted a different constraint? That's why the Spanish version has three e's in its title, for example. 209.210.225.6 02:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the German version also lacks "e". 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 10:26, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

text: German has an even higher frequency of the letter e than English – about 19% if I recall. — BillC talk 01:05, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

text: I don't know, but "a foam-capp'd flood rushing inland" from the English version seems like cheating to me. 75.118.170.35 (talk) 15:30, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice catch! 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 23:32, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  e in Anton Voyls Fortgang?! 

message: Does the opening paragraph seem weird to anyone else? It essentially says the following:
A Void is a 300 page French lipogrammatic novel... Its translation into English by Gilbert Adair is entitled A Void.
-Adjusting (talk) 20:46, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good point. I'll see what can be done about that. -Phoenixrod (talk) 18:13, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening paragraph 

message: Shouldn't this article be first and foremost about the original book 'La Disparition' and mention the translation, rather than the other way around? 74.178.45.158 (talk) 22:40, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  La Disparition 

message: Apology: it was a wrong summary at my undo, it should say "Undid 399990618; this part accords with MOS and so on and without advancing any 'participatory pov' of the work. Barring a plot's own constraint, found at our first paragraph, it is not uncyclopædic as it was." cygnis insignis 07:31, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yet it is better as it is now. Wikipedia articles should be written in the clearest possible language, avoid hidden links (as in "his column" linking not to that author's column but to the paper it appeared in), and should explicitly state relevant information - in this case the lack of use of the letter E. Regards, ClovisPt (talk) 17:26, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  summary 

message: The article reads: “In French, the phrase "sans e" ("without e") sounds very much like "sans eux" ("without them")”
Actually, "sans e" and "sans eux" are pronounced exactly the same by any competent speaker, just like "allô" and "à l'eau" (or "une voix" and "une voie") are indistinguishable without more context. "sounds very much like" should have been "sounds exactly like" Amenel (talk) 15:05, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: perhaps they aren't indistinguishable in all accents? --dan (talk) 06:55, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: I changed the wrong fact of the "a" being the most common letter on Spanish. It is the "e" the most commonly used, "a" is second, as you can read here: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.140.69.232 (talk) 06:18, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This was changed back to "a" for some reason; however Letter frequency#Relative frequencies of letters in other languages (as well as other sources) shows that E/É is half a percent more frequent than A/Á, so I changed it back.  Maybe the article should be clarified to indicate that both letters are closely as frequent.  (As a side note, some sources state that a is the most frequent in the Spanish vocabulary, but considering word frequencies e wins.)   any opinions/comments? —Cousteau (talk) 23:29, 26 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "E" on Spanish 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: As discussed above, maybe instead of having an article about La Disparition be focused on A Void, maybe it would make sense to have two separate articles--one about the original book in French, and one about the translation. This seems important due to the linguistic differences; either way, it seems important for La Disparition to have its own article (or at least be the main book in an article, with translations being secondary). Oeoi (talk) 02:32, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate book and translation? 

message: No source on this, can't find anything about its existence. Linkin Karp (talk) 11:37, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Good call, it is likely a hoax. The same anon editor who added it in March 2015 vandalised Cottage less than five minutes later. I have removed it. I see someone removed this section soon after it was added, but the original editor reverted it, so best keep an eye on this article. —BillC talk 20:05, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The Plight of Gary Leonard" 

message: Even worse. One cannot use:
· (feminine "a");
·,  ("she", "her", feminine "they" and "them");
·, ,  ("me", "you" as object and reflexive pronoun);
·, ,  (plurial "my", "your" and "his/her");
·, ,  ("mine", "yours" and "his/hers");
· ("their", "theirs" and "they" as indirect object);
·Adjectives or past participles in their feminine form (ending in );
·Many forms of  ("to be");
·Verbs conjugated after second-person plural ( ("(you) are"),  ("(you) do"),  ("(you) say/tell") and the others all end in );
·Verbs conjugated after third-person plural other than  ("(they)" are),  ("(they) have"),  ("(they) do"),  ("(they) go") and the future tense, as they all end in ;
·Past participles of the verbs of the first group (ending in );
·Present tense of verbs of the first group conjugated after singular persons (in direct speeches, say) as they end in ;
·Subjective present tense of verbs conjugated after singular persons other than  ("(that I/you) were"),  ("(that he/she/it) were") and  ("(that he/she/it) had") as they end in .
129.104.241.193 (talk) 11:48, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  This precludes the use of words normally considered essential such as {{lang|fr|je}} ("I"), {{lang|fr|et}} ("and"), and {{lang|fr|le}} (masculine "the") in French