At 7:03 PM -0800 2/13/02, Asmus Freytag wrote:
>As I tried to hint at above, attempting to give this answer is at >best possible in a fuzzy, probabilistic sense. Even such a simple >statement that 'e' is used for English, can be misleading. There's >at least one novel that does entirely without that letter, but is >certainly in English. I suspect you're thinking of A Void by Georges Perec. It was originally written in French (without the letter e, original title La Disparition) and then translated into English some years later by Gilbert Adair, also without the letter e. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.ibiblio.org/xml/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
