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A Post Longwards Bound
How easy is the task of creating a long post without making use of pronouns?
Not easy at all. Pronouns are like nuts and bolts in a large contraption — metaphorically, grammar. Very useful.
Especially confounding is the following fact: words can belong to multiple
parts of speech, being polymorphic. As a rule, no polymorphic pronouns are
used here. Just for fun.
Consequently, several natural idioms are precluded from use, severely
deforming the tone of the text, worsening as the length increases.
A programmer would relate, if given a similar rule: to not use local variables
in code. Lexical referencing is a powerful technique to have; otherwise
unnatural protracted constructs result.
Fortunately, however, not all referencing is lost without pronouns.
Adverbs can pick up the slack a little. For example, “here”, “thus”, etc are
helpful. Similarly with prepositions (strongly encouraging spatial thinking, for example: see below).
Perhaps circumventing the rules, as described above, makes the exercise too easy.
How about disallowing adverbs or prepositions too?
No wait. Sod that.



“strongly encouraging spatial thinking”… Does it have METADATA!!!
Plenty of metadata.
Incidentally, like spatial thinking before, temporal thinking is also encouraged.