ITT: We have a conversation without using the letter S

The chat can now begin.

Where are all the other people?

I think they booked a plane out of here.

I believe that doth be true.

Anyway, who hath got a craving for cake?

Ye olde butchered anglic for the win!

Did... did you mention cake? What kind of cake? (In addition: Cheating wimp. :P)

edited 28th Oct '10 6:55:37 AM by BlackWolfe

I remember a game from a while back where 'e' could not be typed. It proved to be a highly mentally acrobatic activity. I am glad to find a new game in that vein.

Intriguing idea you have here.

We can handle it. We're not talking about the letter E here, like the thread Dampenguin mentioned.

Yeah, true.

I will probably come here for a while and then forget about the thread. I tend to do that fairly often.

Wow, Oz, you can actually manage to produce fairly normal-looking language without utilizing the forbidden letter. I'm in awe.

I remember one troper in the 'e' thread tried to remove 'e' from everything he typed, rather than only that one thread. He didn't make it far, if I recall correctly.

Never try to mention a trope by name, and you ought to be fine.

I'm going to cheat.

BEHOLD, THE ALMIGHTY ΣIGMA!!!!

ΣΣΣΣΣΣΣ σσσσσσσσ ςςςςςςςς

σomething iσ wrong with the forum becauσe I keep doublepoσting.

edited 28th Oct '10 11:03:02 AM by nohaynicklibre

Don't cheat. We're trying very hard here.

Okay, I won't cheat anymore.

Hmm... avoiding the nineteenth letter could be fun.

I would like cake.

The cake will kill you.

the cake will certainly prove untrue.

I would like a piece anyway.

I can't refer to anything in the plural or happening now conjugated form! Quite challenging, although not quite to the degree of avoiding the vowl employed more often than any other.

I hear of cake being handed out here?

What kind of cake would that be, I wonder? I am particularly fond of red velvet cake.

@ Hungry Joe: Actually, in the language we're typing in right now, you know the "now" verb form that ought to be conjugated with the forbidden letter once in a while? It would only refer to habitual "now", like (employing an acceptable form of the conjugation) "I eat a lot of rice" would refer to eating a lot of rice habitually, continually. Not that you are currently eating a lot of rice. For that, we employ the -ing form of the "now" conjugation. Unfortunately, that form would require a certain very brief verb which would end in the forbidden letter, which would be why I am employing the "would __" circumlocution rather than the -ing form circumlocution

edited 28th Oct '10 1:08:38 PM by Aoede

You forgot a period.

That I did. I'd go edit it in, but I just realized that I ought to go back to the dorm right about now. And I am lazy. And hey, a Brit would have a much harder time redacting what they type...