Indeed! Not to mention that the text of her message “And I can’t even email you because the ‘e’ isn’t working!!” is bogus.
Maybe we are being obtuse? Or whooshed? Or not amused?
I think “hand message” refers to the ancient practice of chiseling glyphs in stone tablets. Or possibly pen and paper, I can’t really tell.
You must be right. Thanks. Maybe ASL?
What – other than the fickle finger of fate – would have been the first hand message?
"Hi. You might not grasp what I’m about to say, but by buying a PC, I thought it known by all that it should contain…you know…a writing tool? A board of sorts?..A BOARD THAT WORKS! But I took it out of its box and what do I find? Shit. Rubbish. A board lacking part of its friggin’ parts! Oh, which part? Want a hint? Looking at that “d?” Go up. Yup. I can’t. No, not “3.” That’s too far. Hot…hot…burning up! DING DING DING! You win. I don’t, though.
Look, I know nobody could possibly want that solitary most popular part of communication but I kinda do. Call it crazy.
So mail back soon. This roundabout way of typing sucks.
-R"
10! Good to see you in real life, Enderw24. Wink, wink. (Assuming you can see this.)
There was a somewhat absurdist novel written in French a few years ago without using the letter “e”, and then it was translated into English with the same restriction intact. In English it was called “A Void,” and the main character’s name was “Vowl.”
You work for Mr. Burns?
Sorry Zeldar, if you said something profound. All I get is static over at this end 
C’est la vie
– Chuck Berry
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You do have a point.
I’ve been posting this in all the threads were it comes up, but there is a much easier way to type accented letters: go to (on Vista; it’s similar for XP) Control Panel->Regional and Language Options->Change Keyboards, and add your US-International keyboard. Now, once you switch to it (very easy to switch back and forth once you add it; just hit Ctrl-Shift at any time), you can just type the character that resembles the accent you want to put over the letter. It’s really cool; just hit ’ and a vowel to give é (even ’ and c to give ç), " to add umlauts, like ü; for the grave accent, like ò; ^ for î; and ~ for the tilde, like ñ. Additionally, you can just press right Alt and a certain key to give most of the common non-English letters, like Alt+s for ß, Alt+w for å, Alt+$ for £ (Alt+5 is € and Alt+- is ¥), and Alt+l for ø. A full chart is [here](http://www.starr.net/is/type/intlchart.html), and I just keep it open in a tab at all times. It's pretty intuitive, and if you want to switch back and forth, again, just press Ctrl-Shift (the only downside is that to type ' " ~ ^ you have to press the key and then space; it can cause you to type Ï like apples," instead of “I like apples.”). I just noticed that you can also do guillemets (French quotes), « and » by pressing Alt+[ and Alt+], which were mentioned in the thread I made about inverted German initial quotes, like „ (which, unfortunately, you can’t do).
Valete,
Vox Imperatoris
Haha. Always is a Simpson’s [del]moment joke[/del] thing.
Side note: there is a book, originally written in French by Georges Perec called La Disparition (The Disappearnace) that is written in its entirety, without the letter E. Edit: Whoops, I missed Tom’s post the first go 'round. I have heard the English translation is not as effective, despite the challenge of avoiding the word “the”.
Another book, this one in Italian, is entitled All’alba Shahrazad andrà ammazzata (“Shahrazad Shall Hang At Dawn”) and consists of poetic retellings of various major works of world literature, each using only one vowel.
Likewise, the recently released Eunoia by Canadian poet Christian Bök is a book of five chapters, each using only one vowel.
Bad idea. She sends an email with Es in it, IT takes one looks and blows the ticket off, because obviously the E key works. :smack:
Unless of course you went and cut and pasted a different sized font.
It might also help to explain why your email looks so odd.
:smack:
And I still think I have the worst one in here.
Also, an e-less American novel “Gadsby: Champion of Youth” from 1939.
Actually, th3 human mind works w3ll without having to us3 th3 l3tt3r “3”, simply substitut3 any symbol or l3tt3r;
D3ar Bill,
As you might s33 in this 3mail, th3r3 is a k3y on my k3yboard that is not working all that w3ll. P3rhaps you can h3lp m3 figur3 out what I can do to r3pair this?