• lime!@feddit.nu
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    edit-2
    13 hours ago

    i see what you’re up to here. you’ve created your whole post without words that start with that particular letter. i do disagree that it’s hard to express yourself without it however; it’s perfectly possible, i’d say simple, actually, to completely erase the letter from your vocabulary. i’m able to get by perfectly well without a sole use of it, all with perfect legibility. yes, i’d go as far as to say that it’s probably close to the bottom of the list of letters when if ordered by value. get rid of it, i say. to optimize the alphabet is to get our speech closer to the speed of thought. after that, we can will start to chip at the big boys; your time has come, S!

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      13 hours ago

      when

      can

      Almost. You did well, but it’s too hard for me, except maybe for short phrases like this, which, regardless, still requires effort well above my comfort. It’s the sixth most used letter by some measures. Seek out the typesetters’ placeholder phrase where the first “word” has it as last (sixth), place, before the successor “SHRDLU”, which show the order of the most used letters of, uh, latter-day British? Oof. Edit: Modified to avoid a superfluous usage.

      This hurts, so it’s time for me to stop.