# the e-less thread. No e's allowed! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 27, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-less-thread-no-es-allowed/23731 "2000-06-27T15:44:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-less-thread-no-es-allowed/23731/81 "2000-06-28T21:43:23Z")
You crazy, or what? No can do! It’s too hard, I think, to post that way. I simply can’t do it. I must succumb. My wit is too low to put words without _that_ in. Can anybody do it? I didn’t scan all posts, but it ain’t my bag. This stinks. If you did it, kudos to you! ---
**Author:** ![ren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@ren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ren)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2000, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-less-thread-no-es-allowed/23731/82 "2000-06-28T22:35:00Z")
“A Void” was not in my hands for my first post to this column, so I could not say who translat’d it (thanks to good ol’ Will S. for that tic trick!). As I said of it in that post, I thought its translator outdid its author. I was mov’d to proclaim now that he is **Gilbert Adair**. God, but this is an addiction… ---
**Author:** ![Wood\_Thrush](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b38774/32.png) [@Wood\_Thrush](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wood_Thrush)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-less-thread-no-es-allowed/23731/83 "2000-06-29T00:17:17Z")
Birds fly. Any infant may inform you of this fact. But it is difficult for infants to study any intricacy of that flight. Ornithologists accomplish this task so that a normal child must not. Utilizing communal vigor from mighty minds, ornithologists study morphology, habitat, and, in addition, may conduct a study, via ordinary folks, of national avifauna. [This laboratory of ornithology](http://birds.cornell.edu/) is an important icon in this approach. Ornithology — an amazing branch of human thinking. Postscript: Do not mix up birds and bats. ---
**Author:** ![\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT\_REALLY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/3ec8ea/32.png) [@\_SILENT-BOB\_NOT\_REALLY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_SILENT-BOB_NOT_REALLY)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-less-thread-no-es-allowed/23731/84 "2000-06-29T00:37:32Z")
:wally ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-less-thread-no-es-allowed/23731/85 "2000-06-29T03:40:48Z")
‘Utilizing’: bad word. ‘Using’: good word. Sorry; that loathly ‘utilize’ word (and all its family-forms) I truly barf at. It is _so_ …icky. I don’t mind if you skip this post… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-less-thread-no-es-allowed/23731/86 "2000-06-29T03:42:56Z")
‘Utilizing’: bad word. ‘Using’: good word. Sorry; that loathly ‘utilizing’ word (and all its family-forms) I truly barf at. It is _so_ …icky. I don’t mind if you skip this post… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2000, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-less-thread-no-es-allowed/23731/87 "2000-06-29T03:45:37Z")
Crud. I thought I hit ‘stop’ quickly 'nuff. Sorry for multiposting… ☹ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-e-less-thread-no-es-allowed/23731.md?page=4)