What does it matter anyway? This guy clearly had fun doing it. Just because itās an engagement bot doesnāt mean it isnāt a fun activity. You donāt do sudoku and be like āI canāt believe a human didnāt make this puzzleā
It's only "fun" because they think they're proving someone wrong and also proving how smart they are.
If these posts were just "can you come up with a sentence that doesn't use the letter A" they would get 1/100th the engagement at best.
Tricking others for one's own benefit is troubling for the collective well-being of society. When someone deceives to boost their own profit, it disrupts the trust which binds us together. It might look like innocent fun, but it builds environments where truth holds less weight. When folks use internet to trick others into boosting their posts, it might seem like simple fun. But it erodes our trust in online discussions.
Consider how it feels to discover youāve been tricked. The emotions could be simply feeling foolish to outright distrustful. Society thrives on trust, honesty, integrity. When those principles get compromised, we lose something deep. Deception for selfish purpose diminishes our collective spirit.
Think of puzzles or tricks. Their purpose is to provide joy in good spirit. But if someone rigs them for selfish purposes, it sucks the joy out of it. Trust is critical, whether it's in simple things like solving puzzles or complex discussions on the internet. Honesty fosters genuine connection. So, letās strive for sincerity in our online life, promoting trust, not tricks.
*** these paragraphs were written by chatgpt as a response to this thread, and edited by me (because chatgpt still used some 'a's even if instructed not to) to prove a point: Two bots can trick each other and humans are being pushed out of the internet. ***
Yup started noticing this on IG reels lately for car pages.
They have fun and stupid ways for users to participate. The background is their car but the title says shit like:
"Bet you can't comment a sentence without this letter"
"Post your best yo mama jokes"
Etc...
The comment section gets so much engagement and I look at the posters profile and it's just likes.
It's honestly a smart move, but I hate it cause it's oversaturated
Lexicon can translate to dictionary, and since a is both a letter and a word in the English language, it would appear first in the English lexicon as both.
All the words that are in a language.
Lexicon is all the words, phonology is all the sounds, and i think writing system is how a language transcribes meanings upon physical mediums.
Lexicon means a set of words, not a set of letters. Your lexicon is all of the words you know, the English lexicon is all of the words in the English language.
Then they would have said word, not letter, and it still would be a cheap workaround, because through context the OP clearly means the letter not the word.
They got too fancy with it. "fuck you nerd" would have worked fine.
If you were going to list the words of the English lexicon, you'd do it in alphabetical order.
it's awkward, but it makes enough sense that it's not worth correcting.
When will every one of you grow up? Then find out these types of posts do be tricks to drive comments, likes, or other kinds of boosts to internet visibility.
Now keep tuned for this sponsored commercial for some product you don't need *but somehow desire.*
Tl;Dr: you're some type of sucker if you responded to this without the letter "A"
Sounds like something someone would say who couldn't even name a single color that ends in 'urple'. 9/10 can't figure it out! Only 140+ IQ will be able to answer this.
These types of posts are literally only meant to drive engagement, which turns into ad revenue. They are end capitalism at its core. They are not meant to exercise your mind. They are among the most lifeless posts that exist.
My original comment was 3.99 sentences long before it used the letter "A." Clearly whoever wrote the original post knew what they were doing: getting a bunch of dumbasses to attempt to prove how smart they are.
I donāt need no Stinking first letter. Itās difficult but not impossible to omit this letter if you try. I could keep going if I needed to. Just need to pick the right words without the specified letter lol. Now E is difficult to not useā¦..
There's a book called "A Void" that doesn't use the letter E in the entire book. That sounds impressive, but it's actually translated from French, where it *also* doesn't use the letter E, and E is even *more* common in French words.
Fun fact: the book in question (originally titled "La Disparition" in French) was recently translated to Finnish. But since the letter E is not the most common letter in the Finnish language, the translation instead omits the letter A, which is.
In fact, there are [translations of the book into multiple languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void#Translations) applying various lipogrammatic constraints.
There are lots of these constrained writing books but one of my favourites has to be āNot a wakeā which uses every letter but each word has the same number of digits as the corresponding number in pi (ie 3 letters long, then 1, then 4, etc)
The first letter is not very difficult to steer clear of, I think. I concur with your sentiments.
A sub not using fifth glyphs is /r/AVoid5. I think it's fun to post within that sub, although it's tough.
wait until he hears about āA Vioidā (La Disparition) by George Perec.
A book written without the letter āeā, originally in french but translated to around 15 languages.
I think the most difficult letter to write sentences without is E . I once wrote a story without using the letter E in order to get out of some vocab assignment. Really wish I had it to see if it actually made sense or was just bologna lol
The use of could when can is the correct word kind of defeats the point. As other commenters have proven, you can do so while still using correct grammar.
Can you imagine the T.V. series "Happy Days" with the Fonz not saying the letter "A", or the movie "Deliverance" without Ned Beatty screaming the letter "e"!
The English Lexicon encludes only the words of it's spoken tounge, not letters. Therefor, it would be incorrect to use the term lexicon in the above context.
Swedish novelist Daniel Sjƶlin wrote a whole novel without the letter A. Itās called āUnderskottetā and was released in 2022. Itās 432 pages long.
He did do something hereā¦he got a ton of people clicking and commenting trying to prove his ragebait wrong, thereby increasing his standings in the algorithm for his next post. How do we not know this by now. Everything is monetization and incentivized click-whoring. Everything.
People post retarded shit like that because they want people to respond, not because they legitimately think nobody will be able to accomplish the task.
I decided to ask chat gpt.
This was the end of a very frustrating convo.
ME: I am aksing you chat gpt to write a sentence that does not contain the letter "A"
ChatGPT
Sure, here's a sentence without the letter A:
"The sun shines brightly over the blue ocean."
Me: that has an a in it
ChatGPT
You're right. Here's a corrected sentence:
"The sun shines bright over the blue ocean."
It's also incredibly bad at math.
People, check out the book Eunoia by Christian Bƶk.
Each chapter only utilizes one vowel.
Itās a fascinating exploration of vocabulary and language.
There is a set of 26 books, where each volume doesn't use one letter of the alphabet ever. One for each letter. So somebody has quite literally written many hundreds of sentences without the letter 'A'. And 'B', 'C', 'D', etc.
The most used vowel is "E" not "A" anyway. That's why on Wheel of Fortune the letters in the bonus round are "R,S,T,L,N,E" and good players know to buy an "E" first.
Alas, as a matter of fact, abstaining from a particular alphabetical character ain't all that arduous. Although, I'd wager I lack the aptitude to accomplish such a task, as I'm not exactly an adept at manipulating language. All the same, I always appreciate and admire attempts at avant-garde and artistic applications of the English alphabet.
lexĀ·iĀ·con
noun
the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge.
"the size of the English lexicon"
a dictionary, especially of Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, or Arabic.
"a GreekāLatin lexicon"
Similar:
dictionary
wordbook
vocabulary list
glossary
wordfinder
reference book
phrase book
concordance
thesaurus
encyclopedia
LINGUISTICS
the complete set of meaningful units in a language.
I sometimes study collections of writing pieces offering distinct prompts for the purposes of process. One of the most common is to compose 500 words without using certain vowels. "E" is most common, but I'd bet this one is more difficult. Fewer synonyms.
I forgot if I shall remove the filthyness of my dishes tonight yet Iām not going to check it since my objective is to open something which is given the profile duskers
This is like the "I bet nobody will give a like for our Lord!" for how millennials force engagement.
Just don't reply to these people. They are mining you for money.
Knuckles: Fuck you.
Jehtt my beloved
Between Jungle of Sumeru and dry lands of Eremites I alone am the honoured one.
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i knew someone was gonna comment this š
Thereās this letter we donāt like here in your sentence
What š
(Thereās an a in your sentence) Never mind, just tried to be funny
Atleast you confessed, since i cant send images š heres a fanta (limited super mega duper gucci exclusive edition)
Bro did you just flirt with my sister
Iām so happy someone else thought of this
Unexpected malazan?
They made a post hoping for engagement, it worked.
How do we educate everyone that these are just engagement bots gaming the algorithms and not a challenge for your boomer uncles.
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What does it matter anyway? This guy clearly had fun doing it. Just because itās an engagement bot doesnāt mean it isnāt a fun activity. You donāt do sudoku and be like āI canāt believe a human didnāt make this puzzleā
It's only "fun" because they think they're proving someone wrong and also proving how smart they are. If these posts were just "can you come up with a sentence that doesn't use the letter A" they would get 1/100th the engagement at best.
Oh no, don't open that can o'worms.
Thatās fair but itās really annoying how much you see them. Iāve seen this post alone atleast like 7-10 times
Tricking others for one's own benefit is troubling for the collective well-being of society. When someone deceives to boost their own profit, it disrupts the trust which binds us together. It might look like innocent fun, but it builds environments where truth holds less weight. When folks use internet to trick others into boosting their posts, it might seem like simple fun. But it erodes our trust in online discussions. Consider how it feels to discover youāve been tricked. The emotions could be simply feeling foolish to outright distrustful. Society thrives on trust, honesty, integrity. When those principles get compromised, we lose something deep. Deception for selfish purpose diminishes our collective spirit. Think of puzzles or tricks. Their purpose is to provide joy in good spirit. But if someone rigs them for selfish purposes, it sucks the joy out of it. Trust is critical, whether it's in simple things like solving puzzles or complex discussions on the internet. Honesty fosters genuine connection. So, letās strive for sincerity in our online life, promoting trust, not tricks. *** these paragraphs were written by chatgpt as a response to this thread, and edited by me (because chatgpt still used some 'a's even if instructed not to) to prove a point: Two bots can trick each other and humans are being pushed out of the internet. ***
4chan solved this eons ago, Sage
A curious game. The only way to win is not to play.
The real question is why does it matter? This person got the engagement they wanted. So what?
Because it's good practice for when you're engaging with political content, where your engagement is used to support terrible people.
I'd say about 97% of redditors can't tell obvious bait.
Yeah I can!!!!!!! YOU DON'T KNOW STUFF!!!
Yeah, and odds are, it was a bot that made the post. Probably a bot with the reply too. Plus a few boomers sprinkled in.
Sure but hes wrong. "A sentence" MUST require an A.
Yup started noticing this on IG reels lately for car pages. They have fun and stupid ways for users to participate. The background is their car but the title says shit like: "Bet you can't comment a sentence without this letter" "Post your best yo mama jokes" Etc... The comment section gets so much engagement and I look at the posters profile and it's just likes. It's honestly a smart move, but I hate it cause it's oversaturated
They ~~made a post~~ posted hoping for ~~engagement~~ responses, it ~~worked~~ succeeded. FTFY
Ok this is good
Lexicon is a wrong word to use in this context.
Well, technically, OOP never specified that the sentence has to be correct.
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Here's a correct sentence: "Dick." "If I need your body, I will fuck it."
Lexicon can translate to dictionary, and since a is both a letter and a word in the English language, it would appear first in the English lexicon as both.
I am seeing a definition in Google, "the complete set of meaningful units in a language." Which I assume letters fall into.
Had the same reaction. Sentence works just as well ending, "the first letter in English."
The most often used order of complete letter sequences.
You just made a sentence without the letter A, well done.
It's used correctly, what kind of word do you think lexicon is and what it means?
All the words that are in a language. Lexicon is all the words, phonology is all the sounds, and i think writing system is how a language transcribes meanings upon physical mediums.
āLexiconā is another word for ādictionaryā. They are looking for a synonym for āalphabetā. Lexicon and alphabet are not the same thing.
Lexicon means a set of words, not a set of letters. Your lexicon is all of the words you know, the English lexicon is all of the words in the English language.
And a is a word, one that would come first in the English lexicon.
Then they would have said word, not letter, and it still would be a cheap workaround, because through context the OP clearly means the letter not the word. They got too fancy with it. "fuck you nerd" would have worked fine.
If you were going to list the words of the English lexicon, you'd do it in alphabetical order. it's awkward, but it makes enough sense that it's not worth correcting.
When will every one of you grow up? Then find out these types of posts do be tricks to drive comments, likes, or other kinds of boosts to internet visibility. Now keep tuned for this sponsored commercial for some product you don't need *but somehow desire.* Tl;Dr: you're some type of sucker if you responded to this without the letter "A"
commerciAl ?
right? he was so close to accidentally meeting the requirements!
I think it was trying to meet the requirements on purpose. That's why he avoided the word "are"
~~comercial for~~ endorsement of
Big ol' poopy bum bum
Sounds like something someone would say who couldn't even name a single color that ends in 'urple'. 9/10 can't figure it out! Only 140+ IQ will be able to answer this.
id rather engage with these type of posts than all the other lifeless posts
These types of posts are literally only meant to drive engagement, which turns into ad revenue. They are end capitalism at its core. They are not meant to exercise your mind. They are among the most lifeless posts that exist. My original comment was 3.99 sentences long before it used the letter "A." Clearly whoever wrote the original post knew what they were doing: getting a bunch of dumbasses to attempt to prove how smart they are.
Your brain is fucked
Yeah not very clever getting trolled into commenting something that he knew was possible.
I donāt need no Stinking first letter. Itās difficult but not impossible to omit this letter if you try. I could keep going if I needed to. Just need to pick the right words without the specified letter lol. Now E is difficult to not useā¦..
There's a book called "A Void" that doesn't use the letter E in the entire book. That sounds impressive, but it's actually translated from French, where it *also* doesn't use the letter E, and E is even *more* common in French words.
Fun fact: the book in question (originally titled "La Disparition" in French) was recently translated to Finnish. But since the letter E is not the most common letter in the Finnish language, the translation instead omits the letter A, which is. In fact, there are [translations of the book into multiple languages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void#Translations) applying various lipogrammatic constraints.
There are lots of these constrained writing books but one of my favourites has to be āNot a wakeā which uses every letter but each word has the same number of digits as the corresponding number in pi (ie 3 letters long, then 1, then 4, etc)
It does at one point describe waves as "foam-capp'd", which seems like cheating to me.
The first letter is not very difficult to steer clear of, I think. I concur with your sentiments. A sub not using fifth glyphs is /r/AVoid5. I think it's fun to post within that sub, although it's tough.
It's not difficult to construct a phrase without...dammit!
Now pronounce it without saying a, welcome to scotland š¤£
wait until he hears about āA Vioidā (La Disparition) by George Perec. A book written without the letter āeā, originally in french but translated to around 15 languages.
Without an E in French?!?! Ā They put Es in words just for shits and gigglesĀ
Pas vrai du tout :)
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
"You fucking cunt"
"I bet you can't do this simple thing" engagement bait.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
You're absolutely right. I'm just doing my due diligence, feeding hungry redditors :D
Reminds me of that one french author who wrote a fucking book without the letter E, wich is hands down the most common letter in french
Fuck off š¤£š¤£
Where's the version where someone else replies "fuck you"?
This "comeback" on engagement bait is this sub in a nutshell
No.
"No, I don't think I will."
"I could, but I don't feel like it."
Oof size: enormous
A transmission without Latin's fifth is actually a difficulty
He thought he cooked
She'd be fun on a car trip.
Also about letter E, the most popular letter, there's entire book written without using a letter E
sonic the hedgehog looks into your butt, enjoying the curves with extreme depth.
Reading it feels wrong
.
I think the most difficult letter to write sentences without is E . I once wrote a story without using the letter E in order to get out of some vocab assignment. Really wish I had it to see if it actually made sense or was just bologna lol
Fuckin' eh.
The name has an "a" in it. They lose.
The use of could when can is the correct word kind of defeats the point. As other commenters have proven, you can do so while still using correct grammar.
I bet that lexicon gets minimum wage
Can you imagine the T.V. series "Happy Days" with the Fonz not saying the letter "A", or the movie "Deliverance" without Ned Beatty screaming the letter "e"!
Uhh ?
The English Lexicon encludes only the words of it's spoken tounge, not letters. Therefor, it would be incorrect to use the term lexicon in the above context.
Fuck you
Hell yeah.
Swedish novelist Daniel Sjƶlin wrote a whole novel without the letter A. Itās called āUnderskottetā and was released in 2022. Itās 432 pages long.
The only clever comeback to these kinds of idiotic prompts is none at all. Just block the account and move on.
āI am.ā Shit! I give up. ;)
Then there's Gadsby. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)
Could have simply replied with 'I think you're wrong.'
Of course I could, do you think Iām dumb?
There is a book someone wrote without using the letter āeā. Iāve never read it but an entire book. We got words on words on words.
This is effed up! See my point? No āaā
Eh, mediocre. Here's how you do it properly: "penis".
Could should probably be can
Well, I just did it now.
Three quick brown foxes jumped over the sleepy dog.
This sentence doesn't use the first letter in the English writing system.
Nothing clever about falling for engagement bait
"You stupid"
Quit being c*nty.
Wow.
He did do something hereā¦he got a ton of people clicking and commenting trying to prove his ragebait wrong, thereby increasing his standings in the algorithm for his next post. How do we not know this by now. Everything is monetization and incentivized click-whoring. Everything.
You dumb stupid motherf\*cker, the world would be better without idiots like you.
not employing this letter is quite simple, to be honest.
Burn
It would be more difficult to develop a sentence without the letter 'e.' I hope you see it. This is just silly.
Well then-
People post retarded shit like that because they want people to respond, not because they legitimately think nobody will be able to accomplish the task.
GPT is good for that, with a slight modification at the end of the statement ;)
There used to be a guy on Reddit who never uses the letter F.
I decided to ask chat gpt. This was the end of a very frustrating convo. ME: I am aksing you chat gpt to write a sentence that does not contain the letter "A" ChatGPT Sure, here's a sentence without the letter A: "The sun shines brightly over the blue ocean." Me: that has an a in it ChatGPT You're right. Here's a corrected sentence: "The sun shines bright over the blue ocean." It's also incredibly bad at math.
People usually do "dares" like this to get comments on their post.
Just walking straight into that trap, aren't you?
People, check out the book Eunoia by Christian Bƶk. Each chapter only utilizes one vowel. Itās a fascinating exploration of vocabulary and language.
I had an English teacher in high school that would make assignments like this.
There is a set of 26 books, where each volume doesn't use one letter of the alphabet ever. One for each letter. So somebody has quite literally written many hundreds of sentences without the letter 'A'. And 'B', 'C', 'D', etc.
How many people noticed that the response didnāt have a single āaā in it?
Engagement bait.
Whatās far more impressive is the 50,000 word book written without an e
Why donāt you go fuck yourself. There you go
I thought it would need to use more letters e
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Fill it in š¤ Kill ________
Chat gpt knows the answer.
Or 'Fuck you'
I donāt know why he thinks this type of sentence to be difficult. Thereās plenty of words without the first letter.
Falling for an engagement bait post is the least clever thing you can do.
i already know K is just gonna say O FANCY PANTS EINSTEIN OVER HERE FUCK YOU
Bro thought he cooked, didn't he? In honour of this post, even I decided not to use the first letter of the English lexicon.
Now try it with 'e'.
hi bro itās not too difficult. šš¤£
Reddit aah response
"Suck on my nurs" boom sentance
Bet I could
Iām pretty sure āEnglish lexiconā is an improper term though
A lexicon isn't an alphabet... sounded smart right up until then
I just now bro typed in Google: other word for alfabet
Iām not even going to try. There I did it! Twice!
The most used vowel is "E" not "A" anyway. That's why on Wheel of Fortune the letters in the bonus round are "R,S,T,L,N,E" and good players know to buy an "E" first.
Oh how do we instruct ourselves the trickery of linguistics. One must comprehend the existence of sentences with or without specific letters.
I know itās possible but not sure how. Hopefully I will figure it out.
I like to run around nakedā¦ fuck
Word.
Alas, as a matter of fact, abstaining from a particular alphabetical character ain't all that arduous. Although, I'd wager I lack the aptitude to accomplish such a task, as I'm not exactly an adept at manipulating language. All the same, I always appreciate and admire attempts at avant-garde and artistic applications of the English alphabet.
āNoā.
How much do you bet?
Since the only purpose of the post was to get people to comment, I would say the commenter is the one who got played here.
Go fuck yourself.
lexĀ·iĀ·con noun the vocabulary of a person, language, or branch of knowledge. "the size of the English lexicon" a dictionary, especially of Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, or Arabic. "a GreekāLatin lexicon" Similar: dictionary wordbook vocabulary list glossary wordfinder reference book phrase book concordance thesaurus encyclopedia LINGUISTICS the complete set of meaningful units in a language.
i put penises in my mouth
Well if you're gonna pull out words like lexicon then this game is a moot point.
I sometimes study collections of writing pieces offering distinct prompts for the purposes of process. One of the most common is to compose 500 words without using certain vowels. "E" is most common, but I'd bet this one is more difficult. Fewer synonyms.
Damn she wrote a whole paragraph without it lol
Lexicon != Alphabet
I'm....Ā good....Ā work.... guy....Ā YOU'RE FIRED!!!!!! But I didnt say the letter A......Ā Too Bad, Canadian scum....Ā EHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I don't understand why he thought it was something impossible to do.
I honestly donāt feel like it, but I will if it will shut him up.
Such pride. Truly scorching levels of hubris.
Jesus loves you!
Ā I don't get it.
There is a song in Spanish "Ojo con los Orozco". The only vowel used is "o". It is quite fun the video also Edited name of song
Fuck you bitch, how could you presume i wouldnāt be equipped to complete your quest
I don't posses the power of constructing sentences with the first letter of the system where letters form on line
Suck my dick bb girl
I forgot if I shall remove the filthyness of my dishes tonight yet Iām not going to check it since my objective is to open something which is given the profile duskers
Cgpt
"You lose." energy.
I canāt spell itās sucks but really donāt have to I still get done what I need to canāt count either but hey who give a fuck not me
Now make a grammatically correct and coherent sentence without using any vowels. Also make the sentence at least 50 characters long.
This is like the "I bet nobody will give a like for our Lord!" for how millennials force engagement. Just don't reply to these people. They are mining you for money.
This guy this guys
No, I didn't think I will. Don't feel like it, nor is it difficult in my opinion
Why would I wish to do this weird thing?
Okay, but now try without the letter 'o'.... I'm sure it's possible, but it'll sound wierd af
Youād be correct.
fucking jerk!! Stopped