Showing posts with label lipograms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lipograms. Show all posts

Friday, April 8, 2011

Lipogrammatic Humor

If you are always straightening things, you have OCD.

If you are always eating things, you have OBCD.

The above joke that I received in an e-mail reminded me of the amusing and "progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable", Ella Minnow Pea,
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Or, of course, CDB by William Steig.
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lipogram
n. A piece of writing from which all words containing a particular letter have been deliberately omitted.

pangram
n. A sentence that uses all the letters of the alphabet. ex. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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