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        1. what is the smallest vocabulary capable of expressing an obscenity? @catacalypto/1500550850304901120
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        and when I say vocabulary I don't mean purely words, but any form of expressive capabilities.
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      I finished the Gene Wolfe book "Citadel of the Autarch" today, which features within it a character from a culture which speaks only via quoted stock propaganda phrases. He tells a charming and ambiguous story within that medium.
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    what is the smallest vocabulary capable of expressing dissatisfaction with current working conditions and support for the idea of forming a union @abby4thepeople/1511167965374427150
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      and on the subject of telling an affecting story using only banal stock phrases, here's Richard Dawson singing "Jogging" youtube.com/watch?v=UGiQ_-Ktpvc
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        thinking about how "unalive" has entered the vernacular
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          my attempt at a system with the smallest satisfying degree of expression: v21.io/blog/announcing-frog-chorus