英语词汇lipogram的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

lipogram. If anyone has ever discovered the value of lipo- grams, except as exercises in verbal ingenuity, she or he ain’t telling. A lipogram is “a written work composed of words cho- sen so as to avoid the use of specific alphabetic characters,” and the first practitioner of lipography is said to have been the Greek lyric poet Lasus, born in Achaia in about 548 b.c. The next great poet to write a letterless poem was Lasus’s pupil Pindar, who wrote Ode minus Segma late in the fifth century b.c. The Greek Odyssey of Tryphiodorus, however, outdoes both Lasus and Pindar. It consists of 26 books, with no a in the first book, no b in the second, no c in the third, and so on. (Some- one said of the work that it would have been better if the author left out the other letters, too.) Spanish playwright Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562–1635) wrote each of his five novels with- out using one of the vowels, but Lope de Vega is far better known for the 2,200 plays tradition says he completed (close to 500 survive). Another famous European lipogram is Ronden’s Pièce sans A (1816). This was perhaps influenced by German poet Gottlob Burmann (1737–1805), who wrote some 130 po- ems without employing the letter r and for 17 years omitted r from his daily conversation, never speaking his own name, which he hated anyway. James Thurber wrote a story about a country where the letter o was illegal, but the best-known American book without a certain letter is Ernest Vincent Wright’s Gadsby (1939), which has no e’s in it. The author, a California musician, pried the e off his typewriter keyboard to restrain himself and typed a 267-page, 50,000-word epic using no word containing that most common of vowels.

词汇	lipogram
词源	lipogram. If anyone has ever discovered the value of lipo- grams, except as exercises in verbal ingenuity, she or he ain’t telling. A lipogram is “a written work composed of words cho- sen so as to avoid the use of specific alphabetic characters,” and the first practitioner of lipography is said to have been the Greek lyric poet Lasus, born in Achaia in about 548 b.c. The next great poet to write a letterless poem was Lasus’s pupil Pindar, who wrote Ode minus Segma late in the fifth century b.c. The Greek Odyssey of Tryphiodorus, however, outdoes both Lasus and Pindar. It consists of 26 books, with no a in the first book, no b in the second, no c in the third, and so on. (Some- one said of the work that it would have been better if the author left out the other letters, too.) Spanish playwright Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (1562–1635) wrote each of his five novels with- out using one of the vowels, but Lope de Vega is far better known for the 2,200 plays tradition says he completed (close to 500 survive). Another famous European lipogram is Ronden’s Pièce sans A (1816). This was perhaps influenced by German poet Gottlob Burmann (1737–1805), who wrote some 130 po- ems without employing the letter r and for 17 years omitted r from his daily conversation, never speaking his own name, which he hated anyway. James Thurber wrote a story about a country where the letter o was illegal, but the best-known American book without a certain letter is Ernest Vincent Wright’s Gadsby (1939), which has no e’s in it. The author, a California musician, pried the e off his typewriter keyboard to restrain himself and typed a 267-page, 50,000-word epic using no word containing that most common of vowels.
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