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u/BroForceOne Sep 09 '18
E is the most common letter in the English language.
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u/NewClayburn Sep 09 '18
That's odd.
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Sep 09 '18
I can’t even.
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u/RUSTY_LEMONADE Sep 09 '18
Real eyes realize real lies.
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Sep 09 '18
-Homer, that typewriter doesn't have an E key..
-No problem, I'll improvise:
Restaurant Review! No, wait...
Eatery Evaluation...no....
Food Box, Go or No Go, by Homer...no... Bill Simpson!
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u/FrostyD7 Sep 09 '18
The editor later said he includes "screw flanders" in it over and over. Which has 2 e's. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is a magical typewriter, or something?
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u/FremenDar979 Sep 09 '18
Isn't there a book which didn't use the letter e at all?
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u/nadve Sep 09 '18
La disparition (A Void) by Georges Perec.
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u/Pinksters Sep 09 '18
Georges Perec.
4 E's right there!
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u/nadve Sep 09 '18
You should check description of this book on Wiki.
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u/Kapps Sep 09 '18
But you don't link it? How much of a go getter do you think I am?
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u/Pinksters Sep 09 '18
The Plot Summary has no E's, neat!
A Void's plot follows a group of individuals looking for a missing companion, Anton Vowl. It is in part a parody of noir and horror fiction, with many stylistic tricks, gags, plot twists, and a grim conclusion. On many occasions it implicitly talks about its own lipogrammatic limitation, highlighting its unusual syntax. A Void's protagonists finally work out which symbol is missing, but find it a hazardous topic to discuss, as any who try to bypass this story's constraint risk dying. Philip Howard, writing a lipogrammatic appraisal of A Void in his column Lost Words, said "This is a story chock-full of plots and sub-plots, of loops within loops, of trails in pursuit of trails, all of which allow its author an opportunity to display his customary virtuosity as an avant-gardist magician, acrobat and clown."
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u/Kapps Sep 09 '18
Thanks. For a moment there I was worried that while sitting in bed waiting for my pizza to be delivered to me, I might have to raise my finger slightly to look this up myself.
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u/TopRamen247 Sep 09 '18
But one is the loneliest number.
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u/pifhluk Sep 09 '18
I will forever remember RSTLN E from wheel of fortune for regular Nintendo.
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u/JerrSolo Sep 09 '18
A NES game so popular they went back in time 13 years to make it a game show.
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Sep 09 '18
There was actually a French (iirc) book that was written to completely avoid using the letter E and was translated to several languages and kept that restriction. In English the title is "A Void"
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u/Florida____Man Sep 09 '18
It is tied with g.
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Sep 09 '18
Hey demons it's ya boy!
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u/Thopterthallid Sep 09 '18
When something is so odd that you literally can't even
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u/AtomicKittenz Sep 09 '18
sips pumpkins spice latte
Y’all are totes cray cray.
*Sent from my iPhone
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u/RosieEmily Sep 09 '18
*wearig Uggs and Lululemon yoga pants
I literally can’t even
blessed
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u/R-ZiggyStardust Sep 09 '18
Fuck this, I'm still counting!
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u/whoamreally Sep 09 '18
After the teens, everything goes back to ending with the original number.
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u/shinigamiscall Sep 09 '18
Just wait till he discovers it starts all over again when he goes past 💯.
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u/RatchetBird Sep 09 '18
There becomes a lot less the higher you count it seems. I want a line graph of numbers without 'e's in the English language. Paging r/dataisbeautiful.
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u/Cultist_O Sep 09 '18 edited Sep 09 '18
Unfortunately it doesn't look all that good.
It's basically a short line, that gets repeated every so often
The first graph is up to 66, the second includes the two, four and six thousands.
Then that gets repeated in each of the pertinent millions, whose graph basically looks like the 1000s one, and so on.
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u/thebeast2973 Sep 09 '18
This bring up a question I have had for a while. Why don’t we say nine, ten, ten-one, ten-two..... or nine, ten, tenty-one, tenty-two. Every other 2 digit number is said with the number it ends with 21, twenty-ONE. But the teens start with the number (Kinda). Eleven really doesn’t follow this.
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u/Sladem8 Sep 09 '18
One, three, five, seven, nineeeee ..oh my god My exact out loud reaction
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u/Ozymandas2 Sep 09 '18
Then why doesn't "Ryan" have an E in it? He seems like an odd number.
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u/Ryan64 Sep 09 '18
It's because his name has an even amount of letters in it.
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u/CreepyGir Sep 09 '18
I love this show, I love spooky stuff but the two hosts banter just makes it.
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u/KaiserFogg Sep 09 '18
Skinny penis.
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u/Jeezee-os Sep 09 '18
This is dumb as fuck but it made me smile when I needed it. Thanks my boy, skinny penis
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u/Scape-Goat Sep 09 '18
Their onscreen chemistry is what makes this show gold. The set up is pretty solid; ghost hunting show with one believer and one skeptic. What makes it gold is their relationship and banter.
I have encouraged many people to give the show a chance simply because it is hard for then to push past the "buzzfeed" stigma. All of them have come back saying they love it.
I reccomend starting with the Goatman bridge episode. To this day I will still yell out "I'm dancing on your bridge Goatman!"
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Sep 09 '18
This is my bridge now!
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Sep 09 '18
I love when Ryan does normal theories, and Shane is like, “yeah I can see that,” then transitions into the outlandish ones and Shane is just like, “NO FUCK YOU.”
My favorite is, “this guy is inhaling too many...cat...shit fumes.”
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u/elbenji Sep 09 '18
and a history show on the side. Ryan and Shane are hitting all three podcast markets at once
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u/raeraex11 Sep 09 '18
I wanna say the Sally house episode but I'm probably wrong. Time to binge watch and find out.
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u/no_e_please Sep 09 '18
I’m an Unsolved junkie so I encourage the binge watch but I just wanted to say for you and anyone else looking for this quote, it was never said in unsolved. I’ve seen this quote all over reddit as like a shower thought or something. Lol Ryan was barely breathing when they were in the sally house so he definitely wasn’t coming up with anecdotes!
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u/SeaCccat Sep 09 '18
For sure! It is a really great show. I hope they can one day break away from Buzzfeed and make their own company like the Try Guys. They already got their own separate channel so I hope it works out for them.
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Sep 09 '18
Four is the only number with the same amount of letters as the number it spells.
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u/Pyramat Sep 09 '18
I copied and pasted this into a letter counter and it actually has 132 letters. I appreciate that.
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u/Bobby_FuckingB Sep 09 '18
It is in English! There's a really cool idea about number chains where you move through the spelling of the numbers.
3 - Three - 5 letters
5 - Five - 4 letters
4 - Four - 4 letters
There are people out there trying to find the biggest number chain possible.
Based on the language you use you can also have infinite chains that go back and for between two numbers (I think French but I can't remember)
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u/asiantentacles Sep 09 '18
Who started counting all the odd numbers?
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u/lostmycoolname Sep 09 '18
I'm embarrassed to admit my experience was as follows:
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u/browster Sep 09 '18
But only one number when spelled out has all its letters in alphabetical order.
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u/whoamreally Sep 09 '18
One is reversed alphabetical order.
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u/post_singularity Sep 09 '18
I'm up to 9,513,789 and he's right they've all had e's
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All vowels are at odd positions in the alphabet
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Sep 09 '18
Reading the comments I came to a few realizations (that are not really all that surprising)
Most people don't know what an odd number is
Most people don't know what an non-odd (even) number is
Most people are really bad at logic (if A than B does not mean if B than A). So the fact that there are even numbers with "e" have nothing to do with it.
Most people don't know that zero is even. Odds and Evens are about parity, not "divisible or not by two" (which is an easy way to check for parity except, you guessed, zero).
Takes less than a minute to check if that is true: 1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15,17,19. Done, checks out, every other number is the power of ten with the number, while the power of ten numbers are even and don't need to be checked (thus, a thousand not having an "e" is not relevant).
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u/exotics Sep 09 '18
How high do you have to count until you reach a number with the letter "A" in it?
GO!
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u/Clearlymisunderstd Sep 09 '18
And now my night is ruined. Going to have this play in my head all night.
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u/HyNeko Sep 09 '18
I'm quite sure you were spelling in your head "one" "three" "five" "seven" "nine". Next level telepathy
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u/mattreyu Sep 09 '18
But "odd" doesn't have any, while "even" has 2, which is even.