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This was done because of challenge Rumetzen gave me to write an article without using the letter i.
Thanks to CryogenChaos, Rumetzen, Bryx, DrYucatan, Joreth, and Riemann for helping me write this.
Thanks to many of those people, Weizhong, and TwistedGears for reviewing it.
Can you find the super secret super creepy Easter Egg (It's hidden somehow)?
Can you get a staff member to change the rating module to score?
I down-voted the article, then I read this comment and in view of the fact that you were writing it with one arm behind your back (so to speak) I up-voted it.
True story.
Get what you meant to do. Honest. Enjoy what you attempted for sure. But you could have worked harder to pull the concept off. The concept deserves more than three hundred words to truly be great. Shouldn't be too hard: look at Gadsby, half a hundred thousand words, sans the letter "e". And he couldn't use "the"! Plus you have some needlessly odd phrases such as "the Apple Company." Why not use "Apple Computers"? Sure, not an exactly correct term, but that way surely sounds less awkward. You could use "smart phone" to be more clear too, shouldn't be a huge tone problem. So currently, no +1.
(My comment may sound harsh, sorry. Had to keep to the purpose, no tangents. Granted, to compose text styled as so presents constant obstacles. That last sentence was probably the hardest.)
Fair enough. I had a lot of fun writing this, and that's the most important thing to me. I probably could've worked harder, but I love what I've done with it as it is right now. I respect what you've said, but won't be changing a thing about this for the time being.
Sure! Don't get me wrong, the SCP amuses me. But not much past that. Glad you had fun.
I wasn't sure to vote until after I saw your comment. I'm upvoting because this is a really hard thing to pull off, and I think it was done well. There are a few places that I think could be reworded while still keeping the gimmick, but I don't think it's bad enough to warrant a change in vote, though.
"Apple Computer" could work too, as that was their name before they started making MP3 players.
More than a few years late, but thought someone needed to say:
Eye see what you've done there llama. :)
I was just about to downvote until I reached the addendum. Well done.
As far as I'm seeing at the moment, it basically comes down to a writing gimmick with little or no substance behind it. Like the crossword, but not as extreme.
Surely it took effort, time, dedication to write, but overall, what was written was…not much at all.
E: Also, Crowley was a stupid fucking worthless hack* and references to him make me eyes roll so hard it hurts.
*This dose of venom is reserved for the mentioned individual, not this article or author.
I feel like the concept is at cross-purposes with the execution. The idea of a homophonic bleed from the memetic effect is really cool, but since you can't highlight how the eye-part is English-centric, or how it might also disrupt recognizing the affirmative due to "aye," the gimmick ends up as a detraction.
Kudos on the writing quality, but as a scip it just doesn't do it for me.
No vote
The languages of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway all use vowel #3 as a one-letter preposed term — used very commonly to express subject enclosure, and therefore necessary for SCP records. Furthermore, Denmark's language also uses vowel #3 as a second-person plural pronoun — so that the Northern branch would not have an easy job when two or more personnel put mother-tongue research talks on paper. (My own name would get the black box, as that name has vowel #3 at the start!)
"Anomalous" just means "unusual"; not all surreal strangeness HAS to be evil, deadly, or even scary.
I dislike this idea with immense passion. This gimmick with avoiding using "I" is tired, it's stupid, it's inane.
I view stuff like this in the same way as I do any other kind of format screw. It can be a tool to do something different and worthwhile if done correctly. I ask myself whether the deviation in question is adding anything to the reading experience, if it's taking anything away, and if on balance I enjoyed the article more because of it.
In this case, the gimmick is at least thematically tied to the underlying concept, so it avoids the immediate "weirdness for its own sake" pitfall. Unfortunately, I feel that the "writing without 'i's" thing harmed your article more than it added to it. Because of the limitations you placed on yourself, this reads in a stilted, awkward manner that doesn't really do anything except irritate me as I read. I also feel you got a little caught up in the gimmick itself, as I find the core concept kind of thin and underdeveloped.
Used as a complementary piece within a stronger unified narrative, I might have been more receptive. But I can't support this one.
I would be amused if you somehow managed to make the word "rating" change to "score."
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