When y’all get tired of lipograms, you can always try your hand at univocalics — compositions containing only one vowel.
Huh? Uh-uh! Rufus must dust.
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Sorry to resurrect this thread, but I couldn’t think of a better place to put this.
Rap? Pshaw. This board’s Old-Man-on-Lawn Squad would call it “crap”! (Or, might not. I dunno.)
Now if only the author understood punctuation.
It looks as if a board participant is fishing for approbation of a sort! Can you confirm this? A particular instant of punctuation should shift a bit though.
Ludovic
I’m not that fond of rap too. And composing a rap song with a lipogram constraint is not as difficult as it sounds. I think a lot of SDMB folks could accomplish such a task. Would it win a Grammy? Probably not - but who wants awards anyway?
“mislocation of punctuation”
Whoops - sorry 5-4-Fighting
I saw your posting and just had to say that I’m not trying to show off.
(Sorry, but this kind of writing can hold a kind of addiction wouldn’t you say?)
I agr–; uh, I concur! I wasn’t criticizing you though, just playing along.
Ken Jennings recently commented on his website about a book called Eunoia, consisting of five essays- each one written with only one of the vowels (for example, only “a”- no “e,” “i,” “o,” or “u”). He also comments that he himself once tried to rewrite Star Wars as a story only using the vowel “A.”
You could go with “That’s All, Folks!”
I find that doing this is a bit difficult.
But, in truth, I am turning into an addict. Finding words that fit without the taboo symbol is rough though.
Is a gally-wumpus schwa OK, though?
Um, the rap song posted uses E in the first few seconds. He says “this whole song”.
And then there is the song in spanish about “Todos los Orozco”, which just from the title you can guess uses only the “O”. Excellent song and very funny lyrics.
Hmmmm did kaylasdad99 talk about a schwa? Is it similar to this ə ?
I think that’s what it is but if I’m wrong I am willing to admit to that slipup.
Anybody know about linguistics - particularly a schwa?
In Steve martins Book, “the Pleasure of My Company”, his lead character is an obsessive-complulsive with many debilitating tics. In order to complete a roadtrip to his hometown, during which he may or may not suffer the armageddon that would be a gas attendant with a blue cap, he decides to lump all his obsessions into one, and focus on it instead.
He chooses not to use the letter E the whole trip.
Hilariously, he succeeds, and not only that, his fellow roadtripper never realises what he’s diong.
I think he says, “this full song.”