{"id":17820,"date":"2013-03-04T23:30:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=17820"},"modified":"2013-03-04T23:31:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T21:31:04","slug":"twenty-five-letters-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/04\/twenty-five-letters-only\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty five letters only"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Here is my try on <a href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.wordpress.com\/2013\/03\/04\/daily-prompt-25\/\">this tricky puzzle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are 26 letters in the English language, and we need every single one of them. Want proof? Choose a letter and write a blog post without using it. (Feeling really brave? Make it a vowel!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You see, I only quoted the post for some context. There&#8217;s no problem, I think. More so, for someone who&#8217;s mother tongue is different. \u00a0I come from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Russki\">Russki<\/a>\u00a0territories. We use <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Russian_alphabet\">letters<\/a> which were borrowed <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greek_alphabet\">from Greece<\/a>. \u00a0We just exploded them from twenty four to thirty three. Possibly, there is our lesson of unneeded letters. \u00a0We will survive with more. \u00a0We will survive with less. There is no problem.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m only trying things out here. \u00a0It looks like I might do this forever.<\/p>\n<p>Now, going back. \u00a0It&#8217;s not difficult. You only need to word thoughts differently. \u00a0The use of tools like Internet (World Wide Web) or word lists might help. \u00a0Even with the vowels. \u00a0I should refer you to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Letter_frequency\">letter frequency<\/a> resource. \u00a0The letter I&#8217;m ignoring is the second most used. \u00a0(Much less so in this post.) \u00a0But I write just fine without it. \u00a0It is limiting, tricky even. \u00a0However one could get used to it.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think it&#8217;s worth the try? \u00a0Try. \u00a0Let me know in the comments how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.: The URLs of the links I do not control.<\/p>\n<!-- google_ad_section_end -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>Here is my try on this tricky puzzle: There are 26 letters in the English language, and we need every single one of them. Want proof? Choose a letter and write a blog post without using it. (Feeling really brave? Make it a vowel!) 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