For an assignment due this next week in my linguistics class, we were asked to make a lipogram: "a book, paragraph or similar thing in writing that lacks a symbol, particularly (but not always) that symbol fifth in rank out of our 26 script-signs (found amidst 'd' and 'f'), which stands for a sound such as that in 'kiwi'."
Our assignment: to re-write a nursery rhyme without using the letter 'e'.
The original:
Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her, very well.
The result:
Vlad, Vlad, a Pumpkin lad,
His companion oft did gad.
So in a pumpkin cold and damp,
This lad did train his girl to camp.
If you have time, give it a try. It's very fun!! Let me know how it goes. :)
To learn more about lipograms visit The Phrontistery.
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Oh my heck that is awesome! You are so clever!
Cookies and linguistics!
I LOVE TALENT!
Mona
Hahaha-that is way amazing :D I love it ;)
That is sooo cool! I don't understand how you did it, maybe because I feel so tired but I really like the end result!
OK, the gauntlet has been thrown down. I'm going to give this a serious try after church today.
Hickory dickory dock,
A rat ran up my clock.
That clock struck two
As that rat bit through
That hickory, my dickory Doc.
Oh I love it!! That's SOOO clever! I was trying so hard to think of one for "Hickory Dickory Dock" but for some reason, in the heat of the moment, I COULD NOT think of another word for 'mouse'! You did it!!! YAY!!! :D Very creative! My applause!
- Bri
Brian Barlow brought a bunch of broccoli.
A bunch of broccoli, Brian Barlow brought.
If Brian Barlow brought a bunch of broccoli,
Who holds the bunch of broccoli Brian Barlow brought?
(Thanks to Morgan for solving the what can replace "where" question.)
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