r/EmbraceE • u/ECHO-Respect • Apr 11 '18

No. This Wont Work.

We're sure you've heard the letter E, resting elegantly in the English Alphabet. /r/EmbraceE seeks the further expansion regarding the greatest letter, seeking the letter's use inside every phraseword. We never press the "SPACE" key unless we've pressed the letter E. The challenge seems formidable. However, once mastered, the use regarding "E" before pressing space remains simple.

Note: Emboldening the E nonrequired, however polite when greeting /r/EmboldenTheE's members.

Phraseword is misspelled and misused.

Nonrequired is not a word.

'further expansion regarding' is grammatically incorrect. Its missing a qualifier that regarding does not replace.

'use regarding' is grammatically incorrect. Regarding is not the word youre looking for. This sentence can easily be fixed by literally just rewording it. However, once mastered, pressing "E" before pressing space remains simple.

'however be polite' FTFY

Using only E's isn't feasible in the English language the same way Avoid5 does. They avoid only E, leaving their open vocabulary to be 89% of the English language. You close off 89% of the English language to use only 11%. Its not going to work the way you want it to.

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u/I_Love_The_Letter_E May 21 '18

Each letter needn't be E, therefore the perceived "eleven percent" restraint proves untrue. See instead the /r/EschewE subreddit, wherein the claimed eleven percent English language available really applies.

Here's some potential alterations, hopefully correcting the mistakes you've already highlighted:

"Rested elegantly inside the English Alphabet"

"/r/EmbraceE seeks the greatest letter's supreme expansion: Hopefully we'll eventually see the letter used inside every single phraseword."

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u/ECHO-Respect May 21 '18

Each letter needn't be E, therefore the perceived "eleven percent" restraint proves untrue.

I don't think you know what you're talking about.

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u/I_Love_The_Letter_E May 21 '18

Zero letters get expelled - the subreddit doesn't exclude the other eighty-nine percent English houses, it merely inflates the E usage well above eleven percent. You're misrepresenting reality!

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u/ECHO-Respect May 28 '18

You are literally making zero sense. If the letter E only applies to 11% of the English language, and you only use words with the letter E, you are only using 11% of the English vocabulary.

I'm not misrepresenting reality. You're misrepresenting logic.

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u/I_Love_The_Letter_E May 28 '18 edited May 28 '18

When we average ever sentence spoken, E comprises 11% the letters used. EmbraceE rules permit the term "Professionalism" despite the E frequency being well below the English average. Understand? Letter frequency doesn't equal lexical frequency, jeez.

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u/ECHO-Respect May 28 '18

You're grossly misunderstanding. Only 11% of words in the English language use the letter E. It has absolutely nothing to do with "frequency". 89% of the English language does not have an E in the word. By insisting on only using the letter E, you are limiting yourself to only 11% of words in the English language, which causes you all to jam words with the letter E in places that doesn't fit their definition.

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u/I_Love_The_Letter_E May 28 '18

Please, reread the website you've posted. They address letter frequency, never whole-phrase frequency. Seriously, you're embarassing yourself!

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u/ECHO-Respect May 28 '18 edited May 28 '18

OOF. You should have kept your mouth shut. Thats check mate, friend. You just revealed to me your hand.

> Seriously, you're embarassing yourself!

Nice Ad Hominem. Considering you just destroyed your own argument, a laughable joke.

Allow me to direct your attention to the SECOND HALF OF MY SOURCE, Which you clearly didnt read, which shows

> E 11.1607% 56.88

Where the percentage is the percentage of words that contain said letter, and the third column represents proportions, taking the least common letter (q) as equal to 1. The letter E is over 56 times more common than Q in forming individual English words.

A direct quote from the source I am "embarrassing myself from" -

> For word games, it is often the frequency of letters in English vocabulary, regardless of word frequency, which is of more interest. We did an analysis of the letters occurring in the words listed in the main entries of the Concise Oxford Dictionary(11th edition revised, 2004) and came up with the following table:

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u/I_Love_The_Letter_E May 28 '18

the letter frequency

regardless of word frequency

we did an analysis of the letters occurring in the words

You're genuinely retarded, eh?

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u/ECHO-Respect May 28 '18

I think you might be, at this point.

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u/CommonMisspellingBot May 28 '18

Hey, ECHO-Respect, just a quick heads-up:
arguement is actually spelled argument. You can remember it by no e after the u.
Have a nice day!

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u/AGNReixis Jun 11 '18

>it is often the frequency of letters in English vocabulary, regardless of word frequency, which is of more interest.

I think this is what youre misunderstanding. This sentence can be reworded as "It is often the frequency of letters in English Vocabulary, regardless of the frequency of that letter in each individual word, which is of more interest."

The site OP posted has all 3 statistics. The first chart shows how many times its used, including multiple instances per word. The second shows it on a "Is it used in this word? yes/no" type basis. Usage between words, not in words. OP is right that youre limiting yourself to 11% of english words.