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.
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