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Re:Help! Is This Arabic? by fortran77 on Sunday February 26, 2023 @11:58PM (#34953156)
> It's a bit like saying "if you have a paragraph in 'English' and it has no e's in it, it's probably not English."

For the exception, see

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsby_(novel)

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Re:Help! Is This Arabic? by quickthrower2 on Monday February 27, 2023 @04:40AM (#34954610)
Wow, having read the example prose, it is quite an interesting sounding book.
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Re:Help! Is This Arabic? by ehecatl42 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @01:10AM (#34966229)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Minnow_Pea is a riot of a read. Starts with a full complement of letters and drops one letter chapter by chapter.
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