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* Newsprint article titles .
* English reports which have a low word count.
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** [[http://xkcd.com/547/ As shown by]] {{xkcd}}.
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** {{Wiki Word}}s. Also, [[{{Camel Case}} CamelCase]].
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** {{Wiki Word}}s. Also, [[{{Camel Case}} CamelCase]].CamelCase.
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* Buffy AU Vampire Willow talked this way. Bored now.
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* Buffy In ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', AU Vampire Willow talked this way. Bored now.
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* This anonymous shortest poem:poem from Ogden Nash:
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One entry was in Real Life about the Simple English Wikipedia, and one was in Webcomics, telling me to see the other entry. Oh god which one do I shoot
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* See "Simple English Wikipedia" below.
* See "Simple English Wikipedia" below.
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** When he was told one of his novels overran its intended length (possibly ''The Black Dahlia), he went though it and took out anything that couldn't be called BeigeProse. Hit the word-count; didn't make it easy to read.
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** When he was told one of his novels overran its intended length (possibly ''The Black Dahlia), (''White Jazz''), he went though it and took out anything that couldn't be called BeigeProse. Hit the word-count; didn't make it easy to read.
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there's shorter
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*** This also has the world record for being the shortest flash fiction ever.
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* ''TheRoad'' by [[CormacMcCarthy Cormac [=McCarthy=]]]. Sets in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. Not much to describe.
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** His story "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn." (He considered this one his best story.)
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** His story Allegedly, he wrote this story: "For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn." (He considered this one his best story.)
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Contrast PurpleProse. Compare {{Minimalism}} and {{FunWithAcronyms}}. Also see {{Laconic Wiki}}.
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*Buffy AU Vampire Willow talked this way. Bored now.
*Buffy AU Vampire Willow talked this way. Bored now.
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** A contender for second shortest short story, by Ernest Hemmingway: "Baby shoes for sale. Never worn."
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**A contender for second shortest short story, by Ernest Hemmingway: "Baby shoes for sale. Never worn."
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* [[AvertedTrope Nobody]] would this in the GoldenAgeOfComics! My word! See as I narrate the building tumbling down upon us! Can anything save us from a terrible crushing doom?
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* ''GurrenJesus'', a crossover fic between GurrenLagann and TheBible. Makes it better.
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* The short story "Knock" by Fredric Brown mentions is an elaboration and extension of a very short horror story: "The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door."
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* ErnestHemingway. He wrote. Like this. Called it "[[http://www.lostgeneration.com/hemfaq.htm#iceberg Iceberg Principle]]."
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* ErnestHemingway. He wrote. Like wrote like this. Called it "[[http://www.lostgeneration.com/hemfaq.htm#iceberg Iceberg Principle]]."
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* The entire subgenre miscalled "script format" by alleged writers who have no idea what a script actually looks like.
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* Jon Lajoie's "I Kill People" rap is written this way to lay bare (and make fun of) various common rap subjects. Sample lyrics:
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*** [[http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html There was a contest]]. RobertJordan also managed five words: "Heaven falls. Details at eleven."
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* The XWingSeries' Michael A. Stackpole. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Great]] [[MadeOfWin ideas]]. Plain description.
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* The Notebook (Of The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie, not [[TheNotebook any other novel]]).
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* The Notebook ''The Notebook'' (Of The Notebook, The Proof, ''The Notebook'', ''The Proof'', and The ''The Third Lie, Lie'', not [[TheNotebook any other novel]]).
** When he was told one of his novels overran its intended length (possibly ''The Black Dahlia), he went though it and took out anything that couldn't be called BeigeProse. Hit the word-count; didn't make it easy to read.
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* Nobody in the GoldenAgeOfComics.
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* [[MassEffect Mordin Solus]]. Also MotorMouth. Despite brevity, talks more than anyone else. Estimated length when speaking normally...* deep breath* Indeterminate.
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** I'm sorry. But you have to admit that it's difficult to write 500 words on dull books.
*** This troper thinks it's easier to write 500 words on dull books than on interesting books.
**** It's also great training for the business world. Sometimes your career depends on having to write 500 words on nothing at all.
*** This troper thinks it's easier to write 500 words on dull books than on interesting books.
**** It's also great training for the business world. Sometimes your career depends on having to write 500 words on nothing at all.
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* {{xkcd}} [[http://xkcd.com/547/ did a comic on this.]]
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** Also Buffyspeak.
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* Charles Bukowski. Almost all of his works tells you only what you need to know to form a coherant poem or story, and very rarely does he use multisyllabic words. So the few times when he breaks those rules for dramatic effect are more powerful.
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* Charles Bukowski. Almost all of his works tells you only what you need to know to form a coherant coherent poem or story, and very rarely does he use multisyllabic words. So the few times when he breaks those rules for dramatic effect are more powerful.
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** "Such brevity is all the more remarkable when one considers that ''LesMiserables'' contains one of the longest sentences in the French language—823 words without a period." Felton and Fowler's ''Best, Worst, and Most Unusual'', p. 26
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